if only children could rule the world

All this urban living’s made human beings such lazy animals. Second-rate hearing, no sense of smell, no worthwhile instincts.

- Right. See this door. Go and stand by it. When I say so, go out and close it behind you. - What are you going to be doing? - Cooking.

I’ll tell you one thing, you’re the spitting image of a utahraptor I once met in the Jurassic.

I offer you the key to time. The key to time, Nick. And you turn your back on it. Call yourself a scientist?

At first we thought the lions had been fighting, but none of them are wounded. Then we realised we’d lost one.

Okay, here’s the deal. You do all the washing up for a month, and make me breakfast every weekend. And if you leave your dirty boxer shorts on the bathroom floor one more time, I shall kill you.

They’re not stupid, just trusting. It’s not their fault they became extinct.

Look, there’s no need to make a big thing out of it. I fancied you for a bit and now I don’t. That’s all.

Does anyone have a really big slipper?

You really shouldn’t mess with an angry lizard. Do they even know he can fly?

If we’re going to defend ourselves more effectively, then we’ve got to do something more than just react. We’ve got to discover why these anomalies are opening, and then predict when the next one will appear.

What do you think we’re doing here? Running some kind of private zoo?

Are you the idiot who stole the dodo?

Highly trained civil servant. We’re famous for our emotional empathy.

That’s the problem with heroic gestures. Succeed and you look wonderful. Fail, and all you do is leave everybody else with a bloody mess to clear up.