Matt Smith Quotes

I think, as kids, everyone is fascinated with dinosaurs. I definitely was. It is the ultimate big, huge, monster.

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.

I was gaga about dinosaurs as a kid.

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.

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

Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs - boy or girl.

I've loved dinosaurs since I was teeny tiny.

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

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 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.

Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens.

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.

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

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

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

Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time.

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 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.

One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.

There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.

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

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

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

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.