BioShock Loading Screen Quotes

A list of Loading Screen Quotes which appear randomly with useful tips during loading times in BioShock.

The loading screens themselves come in two styles. The more common variant comes in a few different colors, with golden accents, and pictures of the level being loaded. The other kind are seen in the Challenge Rooms, having a picture of the level as the background and a comic book themed after the level.

Newspapers and Advertisements

• "Why not spend your holiday in Arcadia? Fun for the whole family!" - Ad in the Rapture Standard, 9/1/53
• "A gun in every home, peace on every street." - Frank Fontaine at the installation of the first Power to the People machine, 1/22/57
• "Ryan takes down smuggling operation… Fontaine and thugs killed in fiery shootout!" - Headline, Rapture Standard, 9/12/58
• "You know that nine out of ten ladies prefer the athletic man?" -- Advertisement, SportBoost Gene Tonic
• "A city in the ocean's deep, a promise we will always keep… so, rise! Rise! Rise!" - Lyrics to Sander Cohen's Rise, Rapture, Rise!

Andrew Ryan

• "It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else."
• "Commerce is the life blood of the city. If we are not careful, government will become the cancer."
• "In Washington you can see them everywhere: the Parasites and baby Stalins sucking the life out of a once-great nation."
• "What would the Russian Bear and the American Eagle do if they discovered our paradise? Our secrecy is our shield!"
• "Why worship a flag or god when we could worship the best of us: our will to be great."
• "We laid the foundations of Rapture at the end of the last war… but before the final, terrible war that is to come…"
• "My city was betrayed by the weak…"

Bill McDonagh

• "Who can forget their first view of the city? Amazing what a man can create once he gets government and God off his back."
• "Fontaine fellow… he's a crook… but he's got the ADAM, and that makes him the guv'nor."
• "Leaks. Lunatics. Rebellion. And now bleeding ghosts. Ain't life in Rapture grand?"

Albert Milonakis

• "Me? They brought me down to this here utopia to cook hamburgers. Even supermen gotta eat, right?"
• "Yeah, Rapture's full of fancy pants and lots of other stuffed shirts. But so long as they tip all right, I'm happy to rub elbows with 'em."

Dr. Yi Suchong

• "ADAM is the canvas of genetic modification… but Plasmids are the paint."
• "Until ADAM, you could no more domesticate a child than a boa constrictor…"
• "Why children take so long to grow? They eat and drink like pig and give nothing back. Must find way to accelerate process…"

Other characters (Alphabetical by last name)

• "Sander Cohen is two parts suck-up and ten parts hack. And that's being charitable." - Anna Culpepper
• "Darling, you really MUST go see Steinman… everyone goes to Steinman!" - Marianne Dellahunt, Resident, Mercury Suites
• "A star, mama! Mr. Ryan said he's going to make me a star!" - Mary-Catherine (Jasmine) Jolene
• "This city is not built with concrete and steel… it is built with ideas." - Anton Kinkaide, Founder, Rapture Metro
• "It's like I don't even recognize Rapture no more. I hear they've been rounding up people in Apollo Square…" - Diane McClintock
• "Sure, the boys in Ryan's lab can make it hack-proof. But that don't mean we ain't gonna hack it." - Pablo Navarro
• "Now the eggs are in the scramble. Ryan'll be taking down Fontaine, or Fontaine'll be taking down Ryan." - Security Chief Sullivan
• "Do we gouge the suckers a little? Maybe. But where else they gonna go?" - Lloyd Webster, President, Circus of Values Vending

Gallery

A very early loading screen concept.

Welcome to Rapture loading screen.

Farmer's Market loading screen.

Loading screen background used for The Lighthouse and the Museum of Orphaned Concepts.

Loading screen background used for Welcome to Rapture and Medical Pavilion.

Loading screen background used for Neptune's Bounty and Smuggler's Hideout.

Loading screen background used for Arcadia and Farmer's Market.

Loading screen background used for Fort Frolic.

Loading screen background used for Hephaestus and Rapture Central Control.

Loading screen background used for Olympus Heights and Apollo Square.

Loading screen background used for Point Prometheus, Proving Grounds, Fontaine, as well as for all three Challenge Rooms: The 'I' in Team, A Shocking Turn of Events, and Worlds of Hurt.

The 'I' in Team loading screen.

A Shocking Turn of Events loading screen.

Worlds of Hurt loading screen.