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

“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

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

“Then, as Noah would say, the shit hit the fan. On two occasions, he was hauled before the Residency Advisory Board, which was particularly embarrassing since he sat on the board, as voted by his fellow residents, and hence had to recuse himself.”
― Robin Cook, Charlatans

“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

“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

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

“hand”
― Robin Cook, Blindsight

“excitedly that the reason he was calling was that he’d found another patient in the ER, named Lynn Anne Lucas, who had the same abnormal density pattern he’d seen on the Marino film. He told Michaels that he had not been able to follow up on Marino, but was going to get definitive films in the morning. He added that the computer had actually asked him to tell it what the abnormal density changes were. “The Goddamn thing wants to learn!”
― Robin Cook, Brain

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

“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

“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

“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 it can be the key to my freedom,” said Martin holding her close. “You have become my promise for fulfillment and research has the power of giving me what I want from medicine as well as more time with you.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“romantic rendezvous you promised in the coffee shop? I don’t have much time; I’ve got to get back to the CAT scanner.”
― Robin Cook, Brain

“knowledgeable”
― Robin Cook, Bellevue

“through his”
― Robin Cook, Pandemic

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