Sam Quotation Game

[Livia Sabina]

I was browsing through another forum I found through StargateWiki and I noticed that there seemed to be quite a lot of posters there who were very anti-Sam.

I thought that it might be a nice idea if we had a positive thread about Sam, so if anyone's interested we could play the Quotation Game and post nice things about her - the only catch is that somebody else has to have said it.

Quotes can come from other characters on the show, actors, writers, directors, magazine articles.

Anyone else want to play?

[Livia Sabina]

"I turned to science because I thought it would be different than music, but it isn't, it's just the same. It's just as much of an art as anything else... You're an artist, Major. Maybe the best I've ever seen. I'm just critical because I'm jealous."

Dr Rodney McKay
'Redemption, Part 2'

[Colonel Carter]

I don't understand why anyone wouldn't like Sam. She's awesome!

Well Narim said it, but it won't make as much sense unless I add in what Sam said as well. From the episode "Enigma" season 1...

Narim: "Back on Tollan, I thought I was dying. Then I heard your voice and managed to open my eyes and, uh, when I saw you, uh..."
Sam: "What?"
Narim: "An old superstition. There was a time before reason and science when my ancestors believed in all manner of nonsense, like the sher-Mal. The story goes that if a sher-Mal appears at the moment of death, she will take you to her dwelling in the stars."
Sam: "Ah, we call them angels."
Narim: "Then you still believe in them?"
Sam: "Some of us do."
Narim: "Ours were reported to be quite beautiful, and when I saw you, well, you seemed to fit the description."

Also from the same episode...

Narim: "You are anything but primitive, Samantha. What your mind doesn't know, your heart fills in."

[Livia Sabina]

The Narim quote is lovely.


"Carter, you're one of this country's natural resources, if not national treasures."

Jack O'Neill
'Lost City' Part 1

Quick question - is it okay to post quotes from magazines and/or novels?

[Colonel Carter]

I don't see why not.

[Livia Sabina]

"That you're a good person, that your heart is pure, that on the inside your spirit is as beautiful as you are on the outside."

Orlin
'Ascension'

[Livia Sabina]

"Why do we love Samantha Carter? Because she's the real deal: none of your unrealistic feats of strength and knowledge, none of your supernatural or otherworldly powers. Just a highly trained, intelligent woman who does her job well and speaks up for what she thinks is right, which is one of the reasons why she's the most enduring (and probably the most endearing) woman in our Top 10. We know she's not really real, you understand. But we kind of wish she was..."

Cult Times Special #30

That quote was taken from 'Cult Times' magazine's listing of the top fifty 'Feisty Fantasy Females' for 2004. Sam was ranked in 4th place.