Jim Butcher Quotes

Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.

Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them.

I just couldn't do a comedy show about 'The History Of Dinosaurs;' I'd get bored too easily.

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.

I was gaga about dinosaurs as a kid.

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.

I've loved dinosaurs since I was teeny tiny.

I watched all these movies like 'King Kong' and 'Godzilla' when I was growing up, and the fact that dinosaurs actually lived on this earth, the fact that they are not fake, made them very fascinating.

As a kid, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day that my parents took me to Dinosaur National Park, I didn't think life could get any better.

No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Have pity on a dinosaur.

Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

We all deal with being unfairly judged.

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.

I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.

Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.

Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.

Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.

There's no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs. There are predators and prey. The T-Rex in 'Jurassic Park' took human lives and saved them. No one interpreted her as good or bad.

The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.