Michael Crichton Quotes

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

Michael Crichton

• Thinking
• Information
• Mankind
• Fantasy
• Importance

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Support
  • Lost

• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Family
  • Very
  • Roots

• You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • You
  • Winning
  • Pride

• Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Power
  • Guy
  • Best

• To be honest, whenever I go to shoots, or I'm on set, it really makes makeup special and allows me to have so much more fun with it – I don't wear it on an everyday basis, because I like my skin to breathe.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Everyday

• Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and everything because honestly it's a silent black-and-white film.

  

  Penelope Ann Miller
  • Black
  • Animal

• I'm a homebody times ten.

  

  Charlie Puth

• There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

  

  Denis Diderot

• The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• The power to investigate is a great public trust.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Great
  • Power
  • Trust

• For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.

  

  Lily James
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Community
  • Religious
  • Service

• Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Poetry
  • Bible

• I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

  

  Jena Malone
  • Prom

• The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Football

• As an actor, I don't know what I'm doing. I've never known what I was doing. I show up the first day, I'm scared, and I just hang out. It's like being in detention - you just wait for it to be over. Then gradually I start to figure out what's going on.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Waiting
  • Scared

• Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Whenever I enter a position, I have a predetermined stop. That is the only way I can sleep. I know where I'm getting out before I get in. The position size on a trade is determined by the stop, and the stop is determined on a technical basis... I never think about [stop vulnerability], because the point about a technical barrier - and I've studied the technical aspects of the market for a long time - is that the market shouldn't go there if you are right.

  

  Bruce Kovner
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Sleep

• Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

  

  Dainin Katagiri
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Life is

• I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.

  

  Nick Ferguson
  • Opportunity
  • Play
  • Drafted

• The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

  

  Michael Crichton
  • Thinking
  • Information
  • Mankind