Michael Crichton Quotes

I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.

People are afraid of everything.

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

So many men, so many opinions: to each his own way.

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

You cannot dictate what people find funny, what people find attractive, or what people find scary. There is not a norm.

That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.

It must be awful, being a homophobe.

I'm gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they're gonna like. It doesn't really matter.

You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.

Tried to escape, to block out the fact that I was being eaten alive by arachnids. For some reason the only thing I could replace it with was the image of being eaten by tiny clowns.

To me, anything goes. But that's me.

Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

Cole chuckled, saying, “Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

We all are [normal]. Their idea of normal just happens to be different to some other people's idea of normal. But this is the world we live in. Some people simply cannot accept something that is outside of their experience.

There is no accounting for human beings.

Write about the thing that frightens you most.

Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled. Bushes were dangerous, and so were sea grass and rain water. There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end. Grandmother tried to discuss this with her, to no avail. Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.