Starfish Aliens/Quotes

If there are other intelligent life forms out there, they're far more likely to look like quivering mile-wide clumps of algae than British actors with rubber prosthetics glued to their foreheads.

—Cracked

Head thick and puffy, about two feet point to point, with three-inch flexible yellowish tubes projecting from each point. Slit in exact center of top probably breathing aperture. At end of each tube is spherical expansion where yellowish membrane rolls back on handling to reveal glassy, red-irised globe, evidently an eye. Five slightly longer reddish tubes start from inner angles of starfish-shaped head and end in saclike swellings of same color which, upon pressure, open to bell-shaped orifices two inches maximum diameter and lined with sharp, white tooth like projections - probably mouths. All these tubes, cilia, and points of starfish head, found folded tightly down; tubes and points clinging to bulbous neck and torso. Flexibility surprising despite vast toughness.

—At the Mountains of Madness

"How blithely you use the word alien; you have no idea how alien a thing can be."

—The Dark Side of the Sun, Terry Pratchett

"I... uh, get the hang of it," McKie agreed.
"Recommend hang-line as good thought," the Caleban said. "Self, I believe we approach true communication. It wonders me."
"You wonder about it."
"Negative. It wonders about me."

—Whipping Star