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Michael Crichton Quotes

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.'

Michael Crichton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Food Fight Animal Result Animals

I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.

Jessica Simpson

You Know Butt Out Daisy Original

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.

Andy Goldsworthy

Me Think Connections Better Place

Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.

Jef I. Richards

Future Children Believe Congress Our

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?

Russell Hoban

Man Chance You Nervous System Being

The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the very end of their lives, they get into a space movie and they make a lot of money, but until that happens, basically, they don't have bank accounts. They live from day to day.

Mike Nichols

Live Money Day Space End Better

Horses have really distinct personalities, and they're magical in many ways.

Michael Mann

Magical Horses Personalities Many

Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.

Michael Leunig

Winter Beautiful Great Art Sleep

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!

Jay Ryan

Sports Me Professional Play Always

I have targets for business achievements; I do not have targets for acquisitions. Because if you have targets for acquisitions, you end up making compromises in terms of valuations, and you buy things because you have a target, and it is not good for business.

Dilip Shanghvi

Good Business End You Target Up

I always think stand-up is the most brutal environment for a comedian.

Dominic Holland

Think Environment Always Most Brutal

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

Donna Karan

New York Me World New Anything Than

You can't stop people watching on mobiles, but I hope the old fashioned idea of sitting in a dark room with a big screen with a group of strangers lives on forever.

Asif Kapadia

Hope People You Strangers Dark Stop