“Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, but one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“ليس هناك والله خوف أعظم نت خوف الانسان حين لا يعرف السبب”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“Herger said to me, "Be thankful, for you are fortunate."
I inquired the source of my fortune. Herger said in reply, "If you have the fear of high places, than this day you shall overcome it; and so you shall have faced a great challenge; and so you shall be adjudged a hero.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“تتوقف الأشياء الغربية عن أن تكون كذلك بفعل التكرار”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“...thus do strange things cease to be strange upon repetition.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“يجب أن يكون الانسان حكيما باعتدال ولكن ليس مفرط الحكمة حتى لا يعرف قدره مسبقا”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“In the eyes of all of them was the hollow stare of fear, and there was hollowness in their merriment, too.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“Yet I have discovered that if all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief...”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“يردد أهل الشمال مثلا شعبيا يقول : " انظر خلفك " وهم يعتقدون بأن على كل انسان أن يكون مهيئا دائما لان يدافع عن نفسه”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“You have done the work of a mere man," the tengol continued, “and not a proper hero. A hero does what no man dares to undertake.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“وأخيرًا قلتُ لهرغر: المطر بارد.
فضحك ثم قال: كيف يمكن أن يكون المطر باردًا؟! أنت البارد وأنت التعيس! أما المطر فليس باردًا ولا تعيسًا.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“Herger said to me, “Be thankful, for you are fortunate.” I inquired the source of my fortune. Herger said in reply, “If you have the fear of high places, then this day you shall overcome it; and so you shall have faced a great challenge; and so you shall be adjudged a hero.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“The meaning of these discoveries has not yet been sorted out, but it is certainly now impossible to regard the prehistoric Europeans as savages idly”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
“The meaning of these discoveries has not yet been sorted out, but it is certainly now impossible to regard the prehistoric Europeans as savages idly awaiting the blessings of Eastern civilization.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Eaters of the Dead
Michael Crichton
Born place: in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
Born date October 23, 1942
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“I thought I was going to die right there on the spot. I've never heard anything so terrible in my whole life. I hope she is wrong and I never get a period. I am eleven years old and entirely too young to hear about it. Can you imagine my mother not knowing what Kotex are for and dusting the house with them? Well, her mother can just tell her what they are for. I'm not getting into the facts of life. I haven't heard one fact of life I like yet.”
― Fannie Flagg, quote from Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
“I didn't know what to do with this new reality, the horror of my conception. I wanted to bury it in the backyard, far away from anyone's eyes. My skin crawled with knowledge, with the evil that I'd looked into, that had created me. I took long showers. Nothing helped. The dirt was on the inside. (31)”
― Chevy Stevens, quote from Never Knowing
“Nowadays, the work of Alfred Hitchcock is admired all over the world. Young people who are just discovering his art through the current rerelease of Rear Window and Vertigo, or through North by Northwest, may assume his prestige has always been recognized, but this is far from being the case.
In the fifties and sixties, Hitchcock was at the height of his creativity and popularity. He was, of course, famous due to the publicity masterminded by producer David O. Selznick during the six or seven years of their collaboration on such films as Rebecca, Notorious, Spellbound, and The Paradine Case.
His fame had spread further throughout the world via the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the mid-fifties. But American and European critics made him pay for his commercial success by reviewing his work with condescension, and by belittling each new film.
(...)
In examining his films, it was obvious that he had given more thought to the potential of his art than any of his colleagues. It occurred to me that if he would, for the first time, agree to respond seriously to a systematic questionnaire, the resulting document might modify the American critics’ approach to Hitchcock.
That is what this book is all about.”
― François Truffaut, quote from Hitchcock
“She couldn't get past him. After another minute, she screamed, "You'll never take me alive! I'll never let you get me to a secondary location!”
― quote from Beast Behaving Badly
“So why was the goddess of Memory linked with artistic creation,you may well ask"
"Because for the Greeks creativity wasn't associated with the idea of producing something new-as it is today.The artist built upon, or reworked, the great intellectual and cultural achievements of the past.
So a great memory,you see, was considered a key part of creative activity- it gave the artist more material to draw upon, as well as a richer, more complex intellect. When James Joyce said ' I invented nothing, but I forgot nothing either," I think he was referring to exactly this sort of thing. ”
― Jeffrey Moore, quote from The Memory Artists
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