Michael Crichton Quotes

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Michael Crichton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 23, 1942 - November 4, 2008

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ReachYouWalletConsensusSomething

You have to laugh at yourself. I do a lot of humor about all ethnicities that are at the show - Latinos, Asians, Indians... What I say is, 'We're laughing together. I'm laughing with you, not at you.' Never say, 'Oh, I'm better than you.'

Maz Jobrani

HumorTogetherYourselfBetterLaugh

When I'm looking for a leader who's gonna sit across the negotiating table from a nuclear Iran, or who's gonna be intent on destroying ISIS, I couldn't care less about that leader's temperament or his tone or his vocabulary. Frankly, I want the meanest, toughest son of a gun I can find.

Robert Jeffress

LeaderSonLookingGunCareTable

You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident.

Matt Haig

CarDepressionWomanManYouHuman

There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way.

Andy Weir

TechnologyScienceResearchWriting

I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.

Michael Aston

AttitudeMeBelieveVoiceDefend

There are not that many people who can say they have been on a show long enough to leave it. Usually, you don't have a choice. The show gets canceled. There are very few people who live in the rare air of being able to leave a show while it is still in production.

Rocky Carroll

LivePeopleEnoughLongYouChoice

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

Monica Seles

LiveYouBecomeTennisTopGoing

From a guy that still doesn't have his foot in the world, I feel pretty grounded as long as I have music.

Jason Molina

MusicWorldFeelLongPrettyGuy

Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.

Craig Kilborn

HabitBrokenNightSayingSheOut

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

Peter Davison

WillReasonRememberedPoemYour

Lee Strasberg taught me different ways in which a scene can be approached so that it is perfect. Acting schools also open you up - you react differently to each scene. It makes you a very reactive person.

Shenaz Treasury

MeYouPerfectActingPersonReact

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

BusinessSoulPunctuality

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