Robin Cook > Quotes

“If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!”
― Robin Cook, Crisis

“Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“She thought about how marvelous is would be to have a wife keeping the house in order, the meals on the table. At the same time it seemed ridiculously unfair that she could never have a wife. In fact, if she married, she would be expected to be the wife.”
― Robin Cook, Coma

“Surgeons know nothing but do everything. Internists know everything but do nothing. Pathologists know everything and do everything but too late.”
― Robin Cook, Godplayer

“Natural,my ass! The worst poison known to man comes from a tree frog in South America. You cannot imagine how small an amount would be necessary to kill you.and it's natural.Calling something NATURAL is a MEANINGLESS MARKETING PLOY."



"All right,calm down! Maybe I like alternative medicine because it's been in use for more than six thousand years.After all that time,they have to know what they're doing."

"You mean the wacky idea that somehow in the distant past people had more scientific wisdom than they do today?That's both crazy and counterintuitive.Six thousand years ago people thought thunder was a bunch of gods moving around furniture."

-Conversation btw Dr.Jack Stapleton and Vinnie”
― Robin Cook, Intervention

“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion,’ ”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Instead, he was still acting distant from her in many subtle ways, and although they continued to sleep in the same bed, there had been no intimacy whatsoever. Such behavior raised an old concern of hers that Daniel was either incapable or unmotivated to offer the kind of emotional support she felt she needed, particularly in period of stress, no matter what the cause or whose fault it was. (Stephanie)”
― Robin Cook, Seizure

“Los hombres son todos iguales, cuando se sienten mal, no quieren reconocerlo.”
― Robin Cook, Invasion

“The worst thing about disease is the uncertainty. Humans are capable of adapting to anything as long as they know. It’s the hopeless floundering that drives people crazy.”
― Robin Cook, Fever

“It was an awful reminder of how much business interests have taken over medicine. Especially with private equity trying to eke out every last penny of compensation”
― Robin Cook, Night Shift

“Philips reached out and adjusted the viewing controls, called the window level and window width. “My God,” he said after a minute. “You know what we’re looking at? Air! There’s no brain. It’s gone!”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Family life could never be made to run smoothly. At least in the lab the variables had a comforting predictability and problems lent themselves to the scientific method.”
― Robin Cook, Fever

“As I have reminded you time and time again, playing detective is dangerous and not for amateurs, and you are exactly that: a goddamn amateur when it comes to homicide investigation.”
― Robin Cook, Night Shift

“A investigação podia dar esperanças para o futuro, curando as doenças... mas tinha um outro potencial muito mais perturbador.”
― Robin Cook, Mutation

“As soon as the typewriter ceased its rapid staccato, Philips tore off the report. He read it with Denise looking over his shoulder.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“process called cytokine storm. It’s when the body’s immune system senses the virus antigens and then goes berserk, releasing a bevy of extraordinarily damaging hormonelike proteins.”
― Robin Cook, Pandemic

“California sluts. The fact”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“she admitted one other point about their affair. He had given her the strength to finally end another relationship, which had been totally destructive.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“silence in OR #21 as Mannerheim”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Also,” droned Helen, “Dr. Clinton Clark, Chief of Gynecology called, not his secretary, the doctor himself. And he sounded very angry. He wants you to call. And Mr. Drake wants a call too.” The printout”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Vaccines in general and MMR in particular do not cause autism, period, end of story.”
― Robin Cook, Pandemic

“over his body. The skin of the thorax that had been removed was draped over his legs. On it was a large tattoo of a Viking. A small Nazi swastika was tattooed in the center of his forehead. “Why a Viking?” Jack asked. “Hello, Jack, dear,” Laurie said brightly. “Have you finished your first case already? Have you met Agent Gordon Tyrrell? How was your ride in this morning?” “Just fine,” Jack said. Since the questions had come so quickly he only responded to the last. “Jack insists on riding a bike around the”
― Robin Cook, Vector

“Because he’s not here. Does that answer your question?”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Consider your duty done,” said Mannerheim, looking back into his expanding incision. Philips”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“La medicina siempre ha dado por sentado que sus investigaciones lograrán salvar vidas y disminuir el sufrimiento humano. Sin embargo, en la actualidad esta ciencia tiene un potencial aterrador.”
― Robin Cook, Mortal Fear

“knowledgeable”
― Robin Cook, Bellevue

“Her conception of the role of the medical examiner was to speak for the dead to help the living.”
― Robin Cook, Critical

“Marvin was surprised and impressed, however, when he heard that Jason and Carol had come down Devil’s Chute by themselves in the dark. “Ain’t a lot of people going to believe that,” he said, shaking his massive head in admiration.”
― Robin Cook, Mortal Fear

“Does it contain iodine?”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“Back in the disastrous flu pandemic of 1918 that killed upward of one hundred million people, there were stories of asymptomatic people getting on the subway in Brooklyn and being dead from viral pneumonia by the time they got to Manhattan. Whether such stories were apocryphal or not no one knows for sure, but I think they were true because of the virulence of that particular flu strain. What is believed now is that they died from their own immune systems going wild in what is called a cytokine storm.”
― Robin Cook, Pandemic