Michael Crichton Quotes

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Michael Crichton

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Change
  • Attitude
  • Identity

• I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Trying
  • Write
  • Books

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • King
  • Overcome

• Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Life
  • Intelligent
  • Humor

• Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • World
  • Night
  • Single

• I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Know
  • Never
  • Feelings

• Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • Everything
  • Interview

• I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it.

  

  Kaki King
  • Play
  • Having
  • Rely

• I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Sweet
  • Now And Then
  • Sweets

• Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Years
  • New
  • Israel

• Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Law

• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Taken

• Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Dance
  • Gossip
  • Hamlet

• We, the undersigned, gathered in Pilgrimage to the capital of the State in Sacramento in penance for all the failings of Farm Workers as free and sovereign men, do solemnly declare before the civilized world which judges our actions, and before the nation to which we belong, the propositions we have formulated to end the injustice that oppresses us.

  

  Cesar Chavez
  • World
  • Men
  • Free

• I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?

  

  Jessica Biel
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I feel a loyalty to my favorite artists, and to have my fans feel that, for me, is a special bond because I've been there for so long.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Long
  • Loyalty

• You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Lost
  • Die
  • Leaving

• We just cracked. We had this game. We're not supposed to lose that one. I would rather get blown out.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Game
  • Supposed
  • Blown-out

• I'll miss all my teammates. I'll miss Elvis (Andrus) and (Adrian) Beltre, Mitch (Moreland), Matt Harrison and [manager Ron] Washington. To be honest with you, I hope they go 0-162. I got friends, and I love my friends, but I hope they lose their ass.

  

  Ian Kinsler
  • Friends
  • Hope
  • Missing

• You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

  

  Michael Crichton
  • Missing
  • Tomorrow
  • Planets