Optimus Quotes

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Great. There was no scenario in this whole damn thing where Jack didn't come off looking as awesome as the love child of Thor and Optimus Prime.
Brodi Ashton (Neverfall (Everneath, #1.5))
No one who writes a good book is really dead.
Walter Moers
Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.
Optimus Prime
In any war, there are calms between storms. There will be days when we lose faith. Days when our allies turn against us...but the day will never come that we forsake this planet and its people.
Optimus Prime
I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.
Walter Moers
There's a thine line between being a hero and being a memory.
Optimus Prime
Freedom is the right of all sentient beings
Optimus Prime
There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds of my normal existence and familiarise myself with life and the world at large.
Walter Moers
Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my meagre talent for storytelling, in even trying to put her beauty into words. That would far exceed my capabilities, so I'll refrain from mentioning whether she was a blonde or a brunette or a redhead, or whether her hair was long or short or curly or smooth as silk. I shall also refrain from the usual comparisons where her complexion was concerned, for instance milk, velvet, satin, peaches and cream, honey or ivory, Instead, I shall leave it entirely up to your imagination to fill in this blank with your own ideal of feminine beauty.
Walter Moers (The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Culinary Tale from Zamonia by Optimus Yarnspinner (Zamonia, #5))
I was eight years old when I realized that my G.I. Joe and Optimus Prime were more than friends,” I told her. “Theirs was a forbidden love that dared not speak its name.” “Optimus Prime is a robot,” Jenny said. “Humans and robots can’t be in love.” “Oh,” Sandy groaned. “You shouldn’t have said that.” “Blasphemy!” I hissed at her. “It’s true!” she insisted. “I hope you never have children,” I snapped.
T.J. Klune
1. Earth, birthplace of the human race, a species much like our own, capable of great compation, and great violence. For in our quest to protect the humans, a deeper revelation dawns, our worlds have met before. 2. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. 3. I am Optimus Prime, leader of the autobots. 4. We hunt for what remains our decepticon foes hiding in different countries around the globe.
Optimus Prime
Anyway, most of the chapter is Bella telling us how much pain she's in. First she's about to die because delivering Optimus Beyonce nearly killed her. And then she goes on and on about how hot and awful the vampire venom feels as it takes hold of her body. She's in agony and there's nothing she can do about it. Good! I hope it hurts. This is what you get, Bella Swan. This is what you get for being a greedy, self-centered jerk. This is what happens to people who let thousands die in Italy. This is what you get for ruining Jacob's life and ignoring your human friends because you'd rather spend time with pretty people. This is what happens to selfish brats that have no regard for their family. This is what you get for being weak and dependent. This is what you get for lying to your father. This is what you get for crying and complaining about your perfect life. This is what you get for spending pages and pages describing freaking magnets! THIS IS WHAT YOU GET! I only wish the pain lasted longer than a chapter. An entire book of Bella's torture would be nice. And maybe if the book were illustrated…with Octo-Bears…I would finally sympathize with this, the least likable character in the history of novels. Bella, I do not care one tiny bit that you're in pain.
Dan Bergstein
Rome’s success was, its people believed, owing to the favour of chief god, Jupiter Optimus Maximus. Roman religion was not one of doctrine, improvement or salvation but one of ritual and lifestyle, based on sacrifices to a pantheon to ensure success and prosperity.
Simon Sebag Montefiore (The World: A Family History of Humanity)
To all the usual folks: Mom, Sally, Nik, Russell, the DFWWW, my agent, my editor, Orbit Books, the people who buy the books, Optimus Prime, and the rest. You’re still just as important as you ever were and this is a lot easier because of you. To Atomic Robo, for keeping my love of comic books alive and well. And to Victor Von Doom.
A. Lee Martinez (Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain)
[Vitellius's] sins were luxury and cruelty. He divided his feasts into three, sometimes into four a day, breakfast,​ luncheon, dinner, and a drinking bout; and he was readily able to do justice to all of them through his habit of inducing vomiting. ... When his mother died, he was suspected of having forbidden her being given food when she was ill, because a woman of the Chatti, in whom he believed as he would in an oracle, prophesied that he would rule securely and for a long time, but only if he should survive his parent. .... He declared from the steps of the Palace before his assembled soldiers, that he withdrew from the rule which had been given him against his will; but when all cried out against this, he postponed the matter, and after a night had passed, went at daybreak to the rostra in mourning garb and with many tears made the same declaration, but from a written document. When the people and soldiers again interrupted him and besought him not to lose heart, vying with one another in promising him all their efforts in his behalf, he by a sudden onslaught drove Sabinus and the rest of the Flavians, into the Capitol. Then he set fire to the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus and destroyed them, viewing the battle and the fire from the house of Tiberius, where he was feasting. ... At last on the Stairs of Wailing​ he was tortured for a long time and then despatched and dragged off with a hook to the Tiber. He met his death, along with his brother and his son, in the fifty-seventh year of his age, fulfilling the prediction of those who had declared from an omen which befell him at Vienna, as we have stated,​ that he was destined to fall into the power of some man of Gaul. For he was slain by Antonius Primus, a leader of the opposing faction, who was born at Tolouse and in his youth bore the surname Becco, which means a rooster's beak.
Suetonius (The Twelve Caesars)
Llego, pues, a la conclusión de que un príncipe, cuando es apreciado por el pueblo, debe cuidarse muy poco de las conspiraciones; pero que debe temer todo y a todos cuando lo tienen por enemigo y es aborrecido por él. Los Estados bien organizados y los príncipes sabios siempre han procurado no exasperar a los nobles y, a la vez, tener satisfecho y contento al pueblo. Es este uno de los puntos a que más debe atender un príncipe. (p. 33) Sólo quien sea capaz de cortar, como suele decirse, un cabello en el aire, podrá hallar alguna diferencia entre “excusa” y “justificación”. (p. 50) Sucede lo que los médicos dicen del tísico: que al principio su mal es difícil de conocer, pero fácil de curar, mientras que, con el transcurso del tiempo, al no haber sido conocido ni atajado, se vuelve fácil de conocer, pero difícil de curar. (p. 4) Como quiera que haya sido, lo cierto es que nadie probablemente ha sido, tanto como Maquiavelo, signo de contradicción. Nadie ha tenido tan varia y tempestuosa fortuna, como suelen decir los italianos; y vale recordar algunas por lo menos de sus más sonadas peripecias. (p. 11) Maquiavelo puede pasar casi como un santo. Que una u otra vez sacrificó en los altares de Afrodita (de la Pandemia siempre, porque fue varón a carta cabal), parece ser lo más probable pero fueron pasiones o pasioncillas que no alteraron la paz de su hogar, ni sobrepusieron en modo alguno (la carta a Vettori lo está diciendo) a su labor intelectual. (p. 25) … y si no perseveró más en el género dramático -un entretenimiento para él, en fin de cuentas- fue por la simple razón de que lo que ante todo le absorbía era el homo politicus, o como él decía, el ragionar dello stato, y en esto hubo de consumirse lo mejor de su energía espiritual. (p. 11) En la concepción de Maquiavelo, el Príncipe es el Estado… En cuanto al pueblo, es algo que no ha podido definirse jamás. Como entidad política, es una entidad puramente abstracta. No se sabe exactamente ni dónde comienza ni dónde acaba. El adjetivo de soberano aplicado al pueblo es una farsa trágica… Al pueblo no le queda ni un monosílabo para afirmar y obedecer. (p. 15) En los Discursos sobre Tito Livio abundan declaraciones semejantes. “Hay que partir del presupuesto de que los hombres son todos perversos (tutti gli uomini rei), y que siempre que se les presente ocasión, harán uso de la malignidad de su ánimo… Los hombres no obran jamás el bien, a no ser por necesidad”. (p. 32) La libertad, por tanto, es para Maquiavelo el supremo bien a cuya consecución debe ordenarse la comunidad política, y por esta consideración censura severamente a Julio César, por haber sido el exterminador de las libertades públicas y, en suma, de la República romana. (p. 28) Ha de notarse, pues, que a los hombres hay que conquistarlos o eliminarlos, porque si se vengan de las ofensas leves, de las graves no pueden; así que la ofensa que se haga al hombre debe ser tal, que le resulte imposible vengarse. (p. 3) … no sin haberle colgado previamente una inscripción según la cual Maquiavelo habría sido un hombre astuto y pérfido, coadjutor de los demonios e incomparable artífice de maquinaciones diabólicas: “Homo vafer ac subdolus, diabolicarum cogitationum faber optimus, cacodaemonis auxiliator”. (p. 12) Quien confía en el pueblo edifica sobre arena. (se me olvidó colocar la página) Y Traiano Boccalini, por su parte, decía lo siguiente: “No vemos por qué ha de condenarse la lectura de Maquiavelo, cuando se recomienda la lectura de la Historia”. (p. 38) … en esto acabó por convertirse, según dice Macaulay, el odiado político florentino. (p. 13)
Niccolò Machiavelli (El Principe)
This is not war, its human extinction. ~ Optimus Prime
Bobby Akart (Level 6 (Pandemic #3))
Optimus, he said, would learn to perform tasks without needing line-by-line instructions. Like a human, it would teach itself by observing. That would transform not only our economy, he said, but the way we live.
Walter Isaacson (Elon Musk)
Adriel’s beautiful, gray eyes widen with her grin, and I snort. “I can’t say that I have.” She lifts ‘Optimus Bunny Boo’, a rabbit-legged Bratz doll wearing the head of one of my old Transformers. As she shifts around, her Hello Kitty panties flash at me, swelling up my throat. My face burns hot, and even though my stomach turns in embarrassment, I wish I had the courage to ask her to spread her legs wider so I can see…
Charity B. (R.I.P.)
Goddamn it, I just sat on your goddamned truck guy…. Optimus Prime? I don’t give a shit what it’s called, keep it away from where I like to put my ass.
Justin Halpern (Sh*t My Dad Says)
You all heard that, right?” Lore choked out, looking around. “I’m not just hallucinating that she named my cousin’s dick Optimus Prime?” “Aww, baby,” Sasha purred, “and you haven’t even met him yet!” “Felt him,” I whispered back, trying harder to keep my voice down. “He earned that name.
V.E.S. Pullen (Book of the Lost: AAV-07d25-11 (The JAK2 Cycle, #3))
Musk had founded SpaceX, he liked to say, to increase the chances for the survival of human consciousness by making us a multiplanetary species. The grand rationale for Tesla and SolarCity was to lead the way to a sustainable energy future. Optimus and Neuralink were launched to create human-machine interfaces that would protect us from evil artificial intelligence.
Walter Isaacson (Elon Musk)
We wanted Optimus Prime to feel heroic and powerful. His design helped define the lanquage of the design approach for the whole show. -Jose Lopez
Jim Sorenson (Transformers: Art of Prime)
Because of the number of flashbacks to Optimus' days on Cybertron, he is one of the few characters in Prime to have a dedicated Cybertronian model. Note the lack of "kibble" in this streamlined form.
Jim Sorenson (Transformers: Art of Prime)
For example, we learned that on the toys they always design the vehicle first and then the robot. They design a vehicle then they break it apart. With us, because the robot is the actor and is what we see 90% of the time in the show we told them that we wanted to design the robot first and from there, break it apart and create a vehicle. Obviously we'll know things like Optimus is a truck, Soundwave's going to be some kind of jet, so we know what kind of vehicle it is but we have the robot dictate the shape of the vehicle. That was one of the new things we did on the show that was pretty interesting. -Jose Lopez
Jim Sorenson (Transformers: Art of Prime)
We looked through all the incarnations of Optimus over the years and kept the iconic elements that make him who he is. The crest on his head. The windshield wipers on his chest. The position of the wheels on the lower legs. The position of the emblems on the shoulders. Even on the biceps you see the slightly lighter grey tone just to mimic the white on the biceps of G1. -Jose Lopez
Jim Sorenson (Transformers: Art of Prime)
I was really just trying to bring back what G1 was- a bulked-out Optimus Prime with giant shoulder pads. We tried 2 or 3 different color schemes. One was very G1, very bright red and white, but we muted it down to something that fits more in with the Prime universe. -Walter Gatus
Jim Sorenson (Transformers: Art of Prime)
Here's an example: as a kid I always wanted to see Optimus peel his wheels out on Megatron's face. It's just something I did as a kid, you know, they've got these tires! We've got a director, Vinton Heuck, and in the last two or three episodes of the first season we had this giant fight at a volcano and he put that shot in there for me. Watching that I had a tear running down my face. Those moments are when I'm still watching it as a kid and I'm like "Oh my God, this is Transformers, am I going to die now? Is the circle complete?" But it's always fun. -David Hartman
Jim Sorenson (Transformers: Art of Prime)
Predaking was a lot of work, but also a lot of fun. I designed Optimus 2.0 and Predaking simultaneously and I went nuts with the detail. A lot of people freaked out, on the toy side and at Polygon. I made a lot of people's lives more difficult. -Jose Lopez
Jim Sorenson (Transformers: Art of Prime)
All are one. Right now. In this moment. In every moment we stop to recognize something of ourselves in each other. Unity isn’t some hoped-for event. It’s a matter of perception.
Optimus Prime