“This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one thing inside you - the ability to imagine.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
“Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
“In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memories, our lives are organized around memories, our cultures are built upon the foundation of shared memories that we call history and science.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
“On the video monitor, they saw Ted Fielding slap the polished sphere and shout, "Open! Open Sesame! Open up, you son of a bitch!"
The sphere did not respond.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
“All the deep-diving studies show that women are superior for submerged operations. They're physically smaller and consume less nutrients and air, they have better social skills and tolerate close quarters better, and they are physiologically tougher and have better endurance.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
“The Thematic Apperception Test was a psychological test that consisted of a series of ambiguous pictures. Subjects were supposed to tell what they thought was happening in the pictures. Since no clear story was implied by the pictures, the subjects supplied the stories. And the stories told much more about the storytellers than about the pictures.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
“En cierto sentido, no estamos integrados más que por recuerdos. Nuestra personalidad se estructura a partir de recuerdos, nuestra vida está organizada en torno a recuerdos, nuestras culturas se erigen sobre los cimientos de los recuerdos compartidos, a los que denominamos "historia" y "ciencia". Y desistir de un recuerdo, desistir del conocimiento, desistir de los pasado no es fácil.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
“Like our padded cell?" He poked the insulated walls. "It's like living in a vagina.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
“The ability to imagine is the largest part of what you call intelligence. You think the ability to imagine is merely a useful step on the way to solving a problem or making something happen. But imagining it is what makes it happen.
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one thing inside you--the ability to imagine.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
“you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
“It is an absurd expression of romantic hope.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
“theoretician, his reputation secured in probability-density functions”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
“And I think the answer is that we are, in reality, terribly frail animals. And we don’t like to be reminded of how frail we are—how delicate the balances are inside our own bodies, how short our stay on Earth, and how easily it is ended. So”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
Michael Crichton
Born place: in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
Born date October 23, 1942
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“Because she was solid gold, fourteen-carat, barely burnished despite twenty years of hard molling. But beneath it, I knew, beneath that gold and stardust, she was all grit and sharp teeth gnashing, head twisting, talons out, tearing flesh. She was all open mouth, tunneling into an awful nothing.”
― Megan Abbott, quote from Queenpin
“Desapareció la luna y empezó a clarear el día. Habían terminado ya la primera tanda cuando el hijo mayor, Akim, en pelliza corta y gorro, se acercó a los que trabajaban.
-¡Tú sí que te lo tomas con calma! -le gritó el padre, dejando de golpear y apoyándose en el mayal.
-Tenía que atender a los caballos.
-¡Atender a los caballos! -dijo el padre remedándole- La vieja cuidará de eso. Tú coge un mayal. Te estás poniendo demasiado gordo. ¡Borrachín!
-¿Eres tú el que me pagas la bebida? -gruñó el hijo.
-¿Qué? -dijo el padre, frunciendo el ceño y blandiendo el mayal con aire de amenaza.
El hijo, sin decir palabra, cogió el mayal y la faena se reanudó.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Hadji Murad
“But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?”
― Dan Brown, quote from Angels & Demons - Malaikat dan Iblis
“As soon as a Western man comes into contact with the East -- he's already confused. The West has sort of an international rape mentality towards the East. ...Basically, 'Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes.' The West thinks of itself as masculine -- big guns, big industry, big money -- so the East is feminine -- weak, delicate, poor...but good at art, and full of inscrutable wisdom -- the feminine mystique. Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes. The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated -- because a woman can't think for herself. ...You expect Oriental countries to submit to your guns, and you expect Oriental women to be submissive to your men.”
― David Henry Hwang, quote from M. Butterfly
“The mouth is a magnificent tool to communicate intimacy – kissing, licking, sucking, nipping – it's screaming, I'm so fucking into you, without saying a word.”
― Kim Holden, quote from Franco
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