Top 81 Horner Quotes
#1. Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
Jack Horner
#2. In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.
Jack Horner
#3. I have a stunt double; his name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously, it's actually been recorded by 'National Geographic.' He calls it the Hammer Fist.
Craig Horner
#4. My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.
James Horner
#5. Historical science is being left in the dust.
Jack Horner
#6. Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
Jack Horner
#7. The consummation of a revelation is always dependent upon its genesis.
Grant Horner
#8. 'Legend of the Seeker' - it has new and interesting creatures and magic, but it's the stories.
Craig Horner
#9. Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
Jack Horner
#10. Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
Jack Horner
#11. I remember I used to watch 'Buffy,' and I'd be like, 'Ah man, I would kill to be on 'Buffy,' to be part of that little crime-solving team fighting demons and monsters.'
Craig Horner
#12. I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
Jack Horner
#13. Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Jack Horner
#14. A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
Jack Horner
#15. Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.
James Russell Lowell
#16. The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.
Charles Horner
#18. In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
Jack Horner
#19. I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs to have been extremely social.
Jack Horner
#20. To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.
James Horner
#21. Pluto's warm-up is a reminder that no matter where you are climate happens. It always has, it always will - with or without SUVs. And it should remind us to continue taking with an ever-increasing grain of salt these claims that your car acts as a weather machine.
Chris Horner
#22. I'm Jill Dumpty."
"So your brother was Humpty Dumpty?"
"And he didn't fall off that wall, Mr. Horner. He was pushed.
Neil Gaiman
#23. I want to live all aspects of my life, not just acting.
Craig Horner
#24. What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
Matina Horner
#25. Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
Jack Horner
#26. The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.
James Horner
#27. Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
Jack Horner
#28. I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
Jack Horner
#29. Not Pining," she admitted. "But I look at you and you're so ... Awkward, and scruffy, and fearless, and just so intensely yourself, and I remember why I fell so hard for you. And in another universe, who knows?
Emily Horner
#30. There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.
Jack Horner
#31. Always look at the function, its not what you did but why do you do it? Once you find the why then you walk through another door
Matt Broadway-Horner
#32. Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
Jack Horner
#33. I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
Jack Horner
#34. Poems are not for explaining," she said, her tone as bored and faintly scornful as his. "They are for pretty girls to read aloud. Everyone knows that.
Emily Horner
#35. I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.
James Horner
#36. I think people hire me for the slightly weird angle that I bring. Part of the trick is keeping it sort of simple; you have to give the impression of not that much music playing when there's really a lot.
James Horner
#38. A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
Jack Horner
#39. I'm sure that I was influenced by Goldsmith's large orchestral scores when I started out, and that was because the people who employed me wanted that kind of sound. I wasn't in a position to say, 'Go to Hell!'
James Horner
#40. I love music, and I love acting, so if I can just live and be able to do those two things, I can be happy, you know?
Craig Horner
#41. I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.
James Horner
#43. Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
Jack Horner
#44. I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles.
James Horner
#45. My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.
Jack Horner
#46. I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.
James Horner
#47. A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
Jack Horner
#48. I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look at this as just a job. I think of music as art.
James Horner
#49. I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple.
James Horner
#50. I'd been horse-riding a couple of times, but I wasn't that good.
Craig Horner
#51. It is the Arab world of the Middle East, holding 99.8 percent of that sector which, with such virulent hatred, would wholly exclude Israel from the minuscule territory that it occupies, which is presently under .2 percent of that region.76
Barry E. Horner
#52. The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
Jack Horner
#53. The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.
James Horner
#54. I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
Jack Horner
#55. When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion.
Bob Horner
#56. Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
Jack Horner
#57. Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.
Charles Horner
#58. Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?
Emily Horner
#59. 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.
Jack Horner
#60. Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
Jack Horner
#61. I sat there in the darkness, with their skin clsoe to me, and I felt lifted up and wrapped with kindness. And very small, because I didn't deserve this, but small the way a mouse in its den is small: warm and safe and protected.
Emily Horner
#62. You have 22 episodes to start from zero to hero; you can really take a nice, big, long arc. In a film, it's tough to do that - you only have 90 minutes.
Craig Horner
#63. DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
Jasper Fforde
#64. The human capacity for self-deception is very impressive, often showing breathtaking flights of creativity. - Jerry L. Horner, Daniel Seligman Research Associate
Diana Delonzor
#65. Whence thine eyes see equanimity in
all things...this is peace.
Christine Horner
#66. 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.
Jack Horner
#67. Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
Jack Horner
#68. Go ahead, kill me! But live with this: All those people die!
For the rest of your life, somewhere behind the feeds, that human part of you hiding down deep will always wonder how much pain you could have prevented if you hadn't been so weak!
Rick Remender
#69. James Horner, James Newton Howard, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, or Ramin Djawadi would all be a dream come true for a 'Throne of Glass' soundtrack.
Sarah J. Maas
#70. I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
Jack Horner
#71. You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.
James Horner
#72. We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.
Jack Horner
#73. Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
Jack Horner
#74. Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
Jack Horner
#75. 'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
Jack Horner
#76. The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.
Jack Horner
#77. The most important thing today is that Mark Webber is safe and OK. After a very nasty accident, he's fine.
Christian Horner
#78. You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.
Matina Horner
#79. There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons ... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.
Charles Horner
#80. Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
Jack Horner
#81. We'd been twelve years old together. We'd shared the convictions that only twelve year olds can share, that love is simple and powerful and easy and inevitable.
Emily Horner
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