Chris Carter > Quotes

“When reality becomes too senseless to make sense, the human mind will sometimes create its own”
― chris carter

“Interpretation is directly related to a person's frame of mind. Looking at the same image, a person could see two different things depending on the mood that person is in at the time.”
― Chris Carter, The Death Sculptor

“I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals, that what can be imagined can be achieved, that you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone; and that, while we commemorate the... the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.”
― Chris Carter

“Really? We always have a choice, do we? What about the choices that other people make that end up completely changing your life, not theirs? Where is our choice there, then?”
― Chris Carter, One by One

“The nightmares were so devastating that as a self-defense mechanism his brain did all it could to keep him awake at night. Instead of falling asleep, Hunter read ferociously. Books became his refuge, his castle. A safe place where the ghastly nightmares couldn't breach the gates.”
― Chris Carter, One by One

“He’s my new partner JJ and I don’t think he likes you very much. Last guy he took a dislike to still can’t eat anything more solid than yogurt.’

‘Can’t you keep him on a leash?’

‘Sure I can. The leash is in the car. I’ll go get it. You guys will be OK by yourselves for ten minutes or so, right?”
― Chris Carter, The Crucifix Killer

“What makes you think I’d know this woman?’

Hunter knew what he was trying to do. ‘Listen, P-Diddy . . .’

‘D-King . . .’

‘Whatever.”
― Chris Carter, The Crucifix Killer

“Hunter let go of JJ who started dusting his jacket with both hands. ‘Look at what you’ve done to my suit man, these things don’t come cheap you know.’

Garcia checked his pocket change. ‘Here.’ He extended his hand towards JJ. ‘A dollar ninety-five. Go buy another one.”
― Chris Carter, The Crucifix Killer

“To start with, the overwhelming majority of serial killers are male,’ Hunter explained. ‘Female serial killers have a tendency to kill for monetary profit. While that can also be true their male counterparts, it’s very unlikely. Sexual reasons top the list for male serial killers. Case studies have also shown that female killers generally kill people close to them, such as husbands, family members, or people dependent on them. Males kill strangers more often. Female serial killers also tend to kill more quietly, with poison or other less violent methods, like suffocation. Male serial killers, on the other hand, show a greater tendency to include torture or mutilation as part of the process of killing. When women are implicated in sadistic homicides, they’ve usually acted in partnership with a man.”
― Chris Carter, The Crucifix Killer

“Fuck you! Someone has tortured and killed one of your girls and you couldn’t give a damn? I thought you were supposed to protect them, to be their guardian. Isn’t that what pimps do?’ Garcia’s face flared red.”
― Chris Carter, The Crucifix Killer

“He's the most dangerous man alive. Not so much because he believes in his actions, but because he believes his actions are all which life allows him.”
― Chris Carter

“Hunter’s father had a passion for single malt Scotch whisky. A passion that, frankly, Hunter had never understood. He found whisky, any type of whisky, way too overwhelming for his palate.”
― Chris Carter, The Hunter: A gripping and terrifying short story

“His eyes,’ he finally replied. ‘There’s always something in a killer’s
eyes that gives it away.’ Hunter gave Mr. J a subtle wink. ‘You take care . . .
Mr. J.’ He turned and exited the café”
― Chris Carter, The Caller

“Life isn’t meant for us to go through it on our own. We all need help from time to time. No matter how strong or tough we think we are. A person alone just can’t deal with certain life situations. Especially not when you’re only ten years old.”
― Chris Carter, The Night Stalker

“Hies”
― Chris Carter, An Evil Mind

“Just because one understands psychology, Robert, doesn’t mean one is immune to psychological traumas and pressures. Just because one is a doctor, doesn’t mean one doesn’t get sick.”
― Chris Carter, An Evil Mind

“Former member of CSICOP Marcello Truzzi summed up the history of laboratory parapsychology: As proponents of anomalies produce stronger evidence, critics have sometimes moved the goal posts further away. . . . To convince scientists of what had merely been supported by widespread but weak anecdotal evidence, parapsychologists moved psychical research into the laboratory. When experimental results were presented, designs were criticized. When protocols were improved, a “fraud proof” or “critical experiment” was demanded. When those were put forward, replications were demanded. When those were produced, critics argued that new forms of error might be the cause (such as the “file drawer” error that could result from unpublished negative studies). When meta-analyses were presented to counter that issue, these were discounted as controversial, and ESP was reduced to being some present but unspecified “error some place” in the form of what Ray Hyman called the “dirty test tube argument” (claiming dirt was in the tube making the seeming psi result a mere artifact). And in one instance, when the scoffer found no counter-explanations, he described the result as a “mere anomaly” not to be taken seriously so just belonging on a puzzle page. The goal posts have now been moved into a zone where some critics hold unfalsifiable positions.30”
― Christopher David Carter, Science and Psychic Phenomena: The Fall of the House of Skeptics

“Aprender a volar un avión me enseñó una forma de pensar, un enfoque para la resolución de problemas que era aplicable y efectivo. Los pilotos son muy metódicos y meticulosos, y los artistas tienden a no serlo”.”
― Chris Carter

“We’ve got DNA tests; we can convict someone by his saliva. Hell, if the killer had farted in that house the forensic team would probably have some gadget that could pick it up. How can the crime scenes be so clean?”
― Chris Carter, The Crucifix Killer

“The truth is out there.”
― Chris Carter

“But there is also some empirical evidence that sheds light on the relationship between quantum principles and consciousness. Anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff claims to have found evidence that anesthesia arrests consciousness by hindering the motion of electrons in microtubules, minute tunnels of protein that serve as a kind of skeleton for cells. Hameroff speculates that microtubules could be a possible site for quantum effects in the brain,17 and his speculations have led mathematical physicist Roger Penrose to endorse the hypothesis.18 Attempts to develop models of consciousness based on quantum mechanics have also been made by neuroscientist John Eccles, and physicists Henry Stapp and Evan Harris Walker.o Walker and the experimental physicist Helmut Schmidt (the latter responsible for many of the micro-PK experiments described earlier) have also proposed mathematical theories of psi based on quantum mechanics.19 These theories rest upon two propositions that are now supported by experimental evidence: that mind can influence random quantum events, and that influence can occur instantaneously at a distance.p”
― Christopher David Carter, Science and Psychic Phenomena: The Fall of the House of Skeptics

“No-one would mess with a detective that looked like a pissed-off Shrek”
― Chris Carter, The Crucifix Killer

“Popper demonstrated that science can proceed in a truly deductive manner through a process of conjectures and refutations. As long as we concede that all our scientific theories are held tentatively, not as “truths” but as conjectures that may only be approximations to the truth, then Hume’s dilemma is resolved. They may be falsified by a deductive procedure but never verified in any logically valid manner. In other words, scientific theories are not verified by observations consistent with them; rather, they are corroborated by unsuccessful attempts at refutation.”
― Christopher David Carter, Science and Psychic Phenomena: The Fall of the House of Skeptics

“How could such an incredible city be so saturated with insanity?”
― Chris Carter, The Night Stalker

“Quantum systems exhibit an unexpected degree of togetherness. Mere spatial separation does not divide them from each other. It is a particularly surprising conclusion for so reductionist a subject as physics. After all, elementary particle physics is always trying to split things up into smaller and smaller constituents with a view to treating them independently of each other. I do not think we have yet succeeded in taking in fully what quantum mechanical nonlocality implies about the nature of the world. J. C. POLKINGHORNE”
― Christopher David Carter, Science and Psychic Phenomena: The Fall of the House of Skeptics

“on”
― Chris Carter, One by One

“right?”
― Chris Carter, Genesis

“Wir haben also immer eine Wahl? Was ist mit den Entscheidungen die andere für uns treffen und die unser Leben versauen, nicht deren eigenes? Wo bleibt da unsere Wahlfreiheit? Seine Entscheidungen haben mein Leben verändert. Meine ganze Zukunft. Sie haben mich verändert.”
― Chris Carter, One by One

“Titos Wohn-Esszimmer war muffig und düster, und wer auch immer es eingerichtet hatte, litt unter Geschmacksverirrung und war vermutlich halb blind. Die Wände waren in einem schmutzigen Beige gestrichen, das möglicherweise früher einmal Weiß gewesen war. Der Laminatboden hatte so viele Kratzer, dass man annehmen musste, Tito führe in der Wohnung Schlittschuh.”
― Chris Carter, The Death Sculptor

“Just as consistent with the observed facts is the idea that the brain’s function is that of an intermediary between mind and body, or in other words, that the brain’s function is that of a two-way receiver-transmitter—sometimes from body to mind, and sometimes from mind to body.”
― Christopher David Carter, Science & the Near-death Experience