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Quotes About Adventure

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
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
In the lobby of the visitor center, the glass doors had been shattered, and a cold gray mist blew through the cavernous main hall. A sign that read WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH dangled from one hinge, creaking in the wind.
~ Michael Crichton
Whoever you are, some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.
~ Michael Crichton
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
Eventually we hope to drive among the animals—just as they do in African game parks—but, for now, sit back and enjoy the self-guided tour.
~ Michael Crichton
Dr. Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler... Welcome to Jurassic Park.
~ Michael Crichton
Over the radio, Eddie was saying, "I'm telling you, we should have tested first, Doc. Should have done it by the book. You don't come to a place with poisonous chickens if you're not sure your vehicles will hold up.
~ Michael Crichton
There are no pirates in Port Royal
~ Michael Crichton
We are finding wonderful dinosaurs!' Exulted Cope. 'Wonderful, marvelous dinosaurs
~ Michael Crichton
I am most heartily glad that I am not going to the dangerous and uncertain Black Hills.
~ Michael Crichton
Welcome to Westworld, where nothing can go wrong...go wrong...go wrong.
~ Michael Crichton
Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.
~ Michael Crichton
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Welcome to Jurassic Park
~ Michael Crichton
Young Johnson Joins the Field Trip West
~ Michael Crichton
Over the path, a crude hand-painted sign read: "Welcome to Jurassic Park.
~ Michael Crichton
The dinosaur will then finish the victim off at its leisure—making Dilophosaurus a beautiful but deadly addition to the animals you see here at Jurassic Park.
~ Michael Crichton
Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port.
~ Michael Cunningham
That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.
~ Michael Cunningham
She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
~ Michael Cunningham
She could, she thinks, have entered another world. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
~ Michael Cunningham
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.
~ Michael Dirda