“Hamish shrugged. “It’s all pretty cool and impressive … if you never saw fucking Jurassic Park.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“If dragons were real, then in all likelihood they were not graceful, high-chested, noble creatures; rather they would have been dirty, ugly, reptilian and mean.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“Holy shit, she thought. The dragons are throwing cars at me!”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“The airliner-sized dragon blew apart in a monumental spray of blood and pulp. Great chunks of flesh the size of boulders rained down from the sky.
“The empire is striking back,” Ambassador Syme observed, peering out the window beside CJ.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“Fairytales cleanse and sanitise what were once true stories. In fairytales, knights are chivalrous, clean-shaven and wear shining armour—when in truth they were swarthy, filthy rapists and thugs. Castles are bright and gay when in truth they were grim fortresses.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“A monster movie is only as good as the monster in it.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“Convincing someone to believe something that was inherently unbelievable often meant getting that person to make a quick and easy comparison to something they already knew.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“Over twenty men died during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, Dr Lynch. Does anyone regret that? No, all anyone sees is a marvel of its time, a great achievement in human ingenuity.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“Are you a doctor?” Li said.
“I’m better than that. I’m a vet. Vets do everything: brain surgery, heart surgery, lab analysis, dislocations –”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“Come not between the dragon and his wrath. —William Shakespeare King Lear”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“Yo. Salt-and-Pepper. The name is Go-Go or Mr Go-Go, okay?”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. —J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1937)”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“Myths arise from actual events, remarkable events that get talked about precisely because they are remarkable and which then get embellished in the retelling.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“When the President asks you to do something, you’d be surprised how keen you are to oblige,” Syme said.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“German-made Heckler & Koch MP-7 submachine guns with special compact M40 grenade launchers under the barrels.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“In fairytales, knights are chivalrous, clean-shaven and wear shining armour—when in truth they were swarthy, filthy rapists and thugs. Castles are bright and gay when in truth they were grim fortresses.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“The myth of the dragon is a very peculiar one, precisely because it is a truly global myth. Giant serpents appear in mythologies from all over the world: China, Scandinavia, Greece, Persia, Germany, Central America, the United Kingdom, even Africa. There is no discernible reason for this. How could the myth of a large serpentine creature be so consistent across the ancient world? From: Dragons in History by Eleanor Lock (Border Press, London, 1999)”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“Sometimes you had to make the animals perform.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“The Legend of the Dragon Fairytales cleanse and sanitise what were once true stories. In fairytales, knights are chivalrous, clean-shaven and wear shining armour—when in truth they were swarthy, filthy rapists and thugs. Castles are bright and gay when in truth they were grim fortresses. If dragons were real, then in all likelihood they were not graceful, high-chested, noble creatures; rather they would have been dirty, ugly, reptilian and mean. From: The Power of Myth by Craig Ferguson (Momentum, Sydney, 2013)”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“A limitless supply of cheap labor might build you a new city every year, but it ultimately just makes you the factory floor for other countries’ companies.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“Dragons in History by Eleanor Lock (Border Press, London, 1999)”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself. —Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
“The zoo’s “image consultants” from New York had been very clear about this: establish your believability first, then go tabloid.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Great Zoo of China
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“If anything, people without conscience tend to believe their way of being in the world is superior to ours. They often speak of the naïveté of other people and their ridiculous scruples, or of their curiosity about why so many people are unwilling to manipulate others, even in the service of their most important ambitions. Or they theorize that all people are the same—unscrupulous, like them—but are dishonestly playacting something mythical called “conscience.” By this latter proposition, the only straightforward and honest people in the world are they themselves. They are being “real” in a society of phonies.”
― Martha Stout, quote from The Sociopath Next Door
“Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting point and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up”
― Michael Shermer, quote from Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
“There was a click of high heels in the hall behind us, and a young woman appeared. She was pretty enough, I suspected, but in the tight black dress, black hose, and with her hair slicked back like that, it was sort of threatening. She gave me a slow, cold look and said, "So. I see that you’re keeping low company after all, Ravenius."
Ever suave, I replied, "Uh. What?"
"’Ah-ree," Thomas said.
I glanced at him.
He put his hand flat on the top of his head and said, "Do this."
I peered at him.
He gave me a look.
I sighed and put my hand on the top of my head.
The girl in the black dress promptly did the same thing and gave me a smile. "Oh, right, sorry. I didn’t realize."
"I will be back in one moment," Thomas said, his accent back. "Personal business."
"Right," she said, "sorry. I figured Ennui had stumbled onto a subplot." She smiled again, then took her hand off the top of her head, reassumed that cold, haughty expression, and stalked clickety-clack back to the bistro.
I watched her go, turned to my brother while we both stood there with our hands flat on top of our heads, elbows sticking out like chicken wings, and said, "What does this mean?"
"We’re out of character," Thomas said.
"Oh," I said. "And not a subplot."
"If we had our hands crossed over our chests," Thomas said, "we’d be invisible."
"I missed dinner," I said. I put my other hand on my stomach. Then, just to prove that I could, I patted my head and rubbed my stomach. "Now I’m out of character—and hungry.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files
“If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.”
― Herbert Marcuse, quote from One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“I take my cue from deeds, not words.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
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