Jurassic Park (1993)

Share this quote on facebook [seeing the Brachiosaur for the first time] Uh…it's…it's a dinosaur!

Share this quote on facebook [stunned after seeing the dinosaurs for the first time] They're moving in herds. They do move in herds.

Share this quote on facebook The world has just changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but look… Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by 65 million years of evolution, have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?

Share this quote on facebook Hammond, after some consideration, I've decided not to endorse your park.

Share this quote on facebook [on the Triceratops] Ellie, this one was always my favorite when I was a kid. And now I've seen one, it's the most beautiful thing I ever saw.

Share this quote on facebook Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Share this quote on facebook John, the kind of control you're attempting simply is…it's not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh…well, there it is.

Share this quote on facebook I'm simply saying that life, uh…finds a way.

Share this quote on facebook What have they got in there, King Kong?

Share this quote on facebook Now, eventually you do plan to have dinosaurs on your, on your dinosaur tour, right? Hello?

Share this quote on facebook You did it. You crazy son of a bitch, you did it. [referring to Hammond after finally seeing a dinosaur]

Share this quote on facebook [looking at the Triceratops droppings] That is one big pile of shit.

Share this quote on facebook Boy, do I hate being right all the time.

Share this quote on facebook Must go faster…

Share this quote on facebook [after he, Muldoon and Sattler escape the T. rex in a Jeep] Think they'll have that on the tour?

Share this quote on facebook [seconds before being eaten by a raptor] Clever girl.

Share this quote on facebook [when trying to save a worker from the raptor] Shoot her! SHOOT HER!!

Share this quote on facebook They should all be destroyed.

Share this quote on facebook Dammit, even Nedry knew better than to mess with the raptor fences!

Share this quote on facebook Welcome... to Jurassic Park.

Share this quote on facebook [to Donald Gennaro, referring to Ian Malcolm] I bring scientists, you bring a rockstar.

Share this quote on facebook [repeated line] Spared no expense.

Share this quote on facebook [Watching Ian Malcolm from a security camera] I really hate that man.

Share this quote on facebook [To Dennis Nedry] Dennis, our lives are in your hands, and you have Butterfingers?!

Share this quote on facebook It's a UNIX system, I know this!

Share this quote on facebook Don't get cheap on me, Dodgson. That was Hammond's mistake.

Share this quote on facebook [Met in jungle by dilophosaurus about to kill him] Yeah...yeah, that's nice. Gotta go!

Share this quote on facebook [Repeated line] Hold on to your butts.

Share this quote on facebook Alan Grant: [entering his trailer to find a man rummaging through his refrigerator] What the hell do you think you're doing in here? [The man turns holding a champagne bottle and popping the cork] Hey, we were saving that!
John Hammond: [smiling] For today. I guarantee it.
Alan Grant:[Angrily approaches Hammond pointing at him] Who is God's name do you think you are?
John Hammond: John Hammond, [shakes Alan Grant's finger before blowing the dust off his hands] and I'm delighted to to meet you finally in person, Dr. Grant!
Alan Grant: [awed] Mr Hammond…
John Hammond: Well, I can see that my, uh fifty - thousand a year has been well spent.
Ellie Sattler:[Entering the trailer angrily] OK, who's the jerk!
Alan Grant: Uh, this is our paleobotanist, Dr…
Ellie Sattler: Sattler.
Alan Grant: Sattler…Ellie this is, uh, Mr Hammond.
John Hammond: Aha! [Approaches happily shaking Ellie's hand] I'm sorry about the dramatic entrance Dr. Sattler, but we are in a wee bit of a hurry.
Ellie Sattler: [Timidly] Did I say "jerk"?
John Hammond: [Brandishes the Champagne bottle] Will you have a drink? We won't let it get warm. Come along, sit down.
Ellie Sattler: Here, let me… [reaches for several glasses]
John Hammond: I'll get a glass or two, no, no, no, no, I can manage this. I know my way around the kitchen. [Begins to pour champagne into the glasses] Now, I'll get right to the point. Um, I like ya, both of ya. I can tell instantly about people, it's a gift. I own an island of the coast of Costa Rica, I've leased it from the government and I've spent the last five years setting up a kind of biological preserve. Really spectacular, spared no expense. Make the one I've got down in Kenya look like a petting zoo. And there's no doubt our attraction will drive kids out of their minds.
Alan Grant: [Sarcastically] And what are those?
Ellie Sattler: [Teasingly] Small versions of adults, honey.
John Hammond: And not just kids, everyone. We're going to open next year. That is, if the lawyers don't kill me first. I don't care for lawyers, do you?
Ellie Sattler & Alan Grant: [Together] We don't really know any.
John Hammond; Well, I do, I'm afraid. There's a particular pebble in my shoe, represents my investors. Says that they insist on outside opinions.
Ellie Satller: What kinds of opinions?
John Hammond: Well, your kind, not to put a too fine a point on it. I mean, let's face it. In you particular field, you are the top minds. And if i could just persuade you to sign off one the park, you know, to give it you endorsement, maybe even pen a wee testimonial, I could get back on "shedual' uh, Schedule.
Ellie Satller: Why would they care what we think?
Alan Grant: What kind of park is this
John Hammond: It's right up your alley. [passes of the glasses of champagne] I'll tell you what, why don't you come down, just the pair of ya, for the weekend? I'd love to have the opinion of a paleobotanist as well, I've got a jet standing by at Choteau.
Alan Grant: Look, I'm sorry this is impossible.
Ellie Sattler: Yeah, we…
Alan Grant: We just dug up a new skeleton.
John Hammond: I could compensate you by fully funding your dig.
Alan Grant: This is a very unusual time…
John Hammond: For a further three years.
[Sattler and Grant share a "Sure, why not?" look]
Ellie Sattler: Well, uh, where's the plane?

Share this quote on facebook Ian Malcolm: God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.
Ellie Sattler: Dinosaurs eat man…woman inherits the earth.

Share this quote on facebook Alan Grant: [admiring the Brachiosaurus] How did you do this?
John Hammond: I'll show you.

Share this quote on facebook Donald Gennaro: The full 50 miles of perimeter fence are in place?
John Hammond: [in a annoyed tone] And the concrete moats, and the motion sensor tracking systems. Donald, dear boy, relax. Try to enjoy yourself.
Donald Gennaro: Let's get something straight, John. This is not a weekend excursion. This is a serious investigation of the stability of the island. Your investors, who I represent, are deeply concerned. Forty-eight hours from now, if they're not convinced, I'm not convinced. I'll shut you down, John.
John Hammond: [chuckles] In forty-eight hours, I'll be accepting your apologies.

Share this quote on facebook [Discussing Velociraptors]
Alan Grant: What kind of metabolism do they have? What's their growth rate?
Robert Muldoon: They're lethal at eight months. And I do mean lethal. I've hunted most things that can hunt you, but the way these things move...
Alan Grant: Fast for a biped?
Robert Muldoon: Cheetah speed. Fifty, sixty miles an hour if they ever got into the open. And they're astonishing jumpers.
John Hammond: Yes, yes, yes, that's why we're taking extreme precautions.
Alan Grant: Do they show intelligence? Because their brain cavities—
Robert Muldoon: They show extreme intelligence. Even problem-solving intelligence. Especially the big one. We bred eight originally, but when she came in, she took over the pride and killed all but two of the others. That one…when she looks at you, you can see she's working things out. It's why we have to feed them like this; she had them all attacking the fences when the feeders came.
Ellie Sattler: The fences are electrified, right?
Robert Muldoon: That's right, but they never attacked the same place twice. They were testing the fences for weaknesses, systematically. They remember.

Share this quote on facebook John Hammond: [eating several bowls of ice cream] They were all melting.
Ellie Sattler: Malcolm's okay for now. I gave him a shot of morphine.
John Hammond: They'll be fine. Who better to get the children through Jurassic Park than a dinosaur expert? You know the first attraction I built when I came down from Scotland…was a flea circus. Petticoat Lane. Really quite wonderful. We had, uh…a wee trapeze, a merry-go— carousel. Heh. And a see-saw. They all moved, motorized, of course, but people would say they could see the fleas. "No, I can see the fleas. Mummy, can't you see the fleas?" Clown fleas, highwire fleas and fleas on parade. But with this place…I wanted to give them something that wasn't an illusion. Something that was real. Something they could see, and touch. An aim not devoid of merit.
Ellie Sattler: But you can't think through this one, John. You have to feel it.
John Hammond: You're right, you're absolutely right. Hiring Nedry was a mistake, that's obvious. We're over-dependent on automation, I can see that now. Now, the next time everything's correctable. Creation is an act of sheer will. Next time it'll be flawless.
Ellie Sattler: It's still the flea circus. It's all an illusion.
John Hammond: When we have control—
Ellie Sattler: You never had control! That's the illusion! Now I was overwhelmed by the power of this place. But I made a mistake, too. I didn't have enough respect for that power and it's out now. The only thing that matters now are the people we love. Alan, Lex and Tim…John, they're out there where people are dying. So… [takes a spoonful of ice cream] it's good.
John Hammond: Spared no expense.

Share this quote on facebook John Hammond: How can we stand in the light of discovery and not act?
Ian Malcolm: Oh, what's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it observes. What you call discovery…I call the rape of the natural world.
Ellie Sattler: Well, the question is, how can you know anything about an extinct ecosystem? And therefore, how could you ever assume that you can control it? You have plants in this building that are poisonous; you picked them because they look good. But these are aggressive living things that have no idea what century they're in, and they'll defend themselves, violently if necessary.
John Hammond: Dr. Grant, if there's one person here who could appreciate what I'm trying to do...
Alan Grant: The world's just changed so radically, and we're all trying to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but look: Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by sixty-five million years of evolution, have just been suddenly... thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?
John Hammond: [incredulously] I don't believe it! [chuckles] I don't believe it. You're meant to come down here and defend me against these characters [gestures to Malcolm and Gennaro] and the only one I've got on my side is the blood-sucking lawyer!
Donald Gennaro: [without irony] Thank you.

Share this quote on facebook Ellie Sattler: [To Alan] What are you thinking?
Alan Grant: We're out of a job.
Ian Malcolm: Don't you mean extinct?

Share this quote on facebook Ellie Sattler: I can see the shed from here. We can make it if we run.
Robert Muldoon: No, we can't.
Ellie Sattler: Why not?
Robert Muldoon: Because we're being hunted.
Ellie Sattler: Oh, God…
Robert Muldoon: In the bushes, straight ahead. It's alright.
Ellie Sattler: Like hell it is.

Share this quote on facebook [Last lines of the film, as the group piles into a jeep to leave the park]
Alan Grant: Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I've decided not to endorse your park.
John Hammond: So have I.

Share this quote on facebook [Upon discovering an abandoned nest]
Alan Grant: You know what this is? It's a dinosaur egg. The dinosaurs are breeding.
Tim Murphy: But Grandpa said all the dinosaurs were girls.
Alan Grant: Amphibian DNA.
Lex Murphy: What's that?
Alan Grant: Well, on the tour, the film said they used frog DNA to fill in the gene sequence gaps; they mutated the dinosaur genetic code and blended it with that of frogs. Now, some West African frogs are able to spontaneously change sex from male to female in a single sex environment. Malcolm was right...life found a way.

Share this quote on facebook [In the park control room]
Ray Arnold: No, that's crazy, you're out of your mind. He's absolutely out of his mind.
Ellie Sattler: Wait a minute. What exactly would this mean?
John Hammond: We're talking about a calculated risk, my dear, which is about the only option left to us. We will never find the command Nedry used; he's covered his tracks far too well, and I think it's obvious now he's not coming back. So shutting down the entire system…
Ray Arnold: You can get somebody else because I won't do it. I will not-!
John Hammond: Shutting down the system is the only way to wipe out everything he did. Now, as I understand it, all the systems will then come back on their original start-up modes. Correct?
Ray Arnold: Theoretically yes. But we've never shut down the entire system before. It might not come back on at all!
Ellie Sattler: Would we get the phones back?
Ray Arnold: Yes. Again, in theory.
Robert Muldoon: What about the lysine contingency? We could put that into effect.
Ellie Sattler: What's that?
John Hammond: That is absolutely out of the question!
Ray Arnold: The lysine contingency is intended to prevent the spread of the animals in case they ever get off the island. Dr. Wu inserted a gene that creates a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism; the animals can't manufacture the amino acid, lysine. Unless they're completely supplied with lysine by us, they slip into a coma and die.
John Hammond: [angrily] PEOPLE. ARE. DYING! [pause] Will you please shut down the system?

Share this quote on facebook [after raptor enters the kitchen]
Lex Murphy: Timmy, what is it?
Tim Murphy: It's a velociraptor.
Lex Murphy: It's inside.

Share this quote on facebook An Adventure 65 Million Years in the Making

Share this quote on facebook The most phenomenal discovery of our time … becomes the greatest adventure of all time.