When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur and so that's what I've been striving for all of my life.

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

The chicken is a dinosaur. I mean, it really is. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we've classified it that way.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.

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

You have to push through every barrier to get to the mountain top.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.

I don't watch television.

God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.