“The power worship of the Promethean amounts to a travesty of the enhancement of life.” — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share Image
“Prometheus had stolen fire from the gods and suffered the consequences. I had returned the gift of the gods, and the price… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
Doing 'Prometheus' was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Prometheus on the rock. Do you know that story? Every day he's punished for giving mortals fire by being strapped to a… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
“They gave Pandora a box. Prometheus begged her not to open it. She opened it. Every evil to which human flesh is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Yesterday, two firefighters with the Florida Division of Forestry were killed while working on the Blue Ribbon Fire in Florida. On behalf… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
And yes,Percy,of course they are now in our United States. Look at your symbol,the eagle of Zeus. Look at the statue of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Men, like planets, have both a visible and an invisible history. The astronomer threads the darkness with strict deduction, accounting so for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“At thirty-nine, I learned how to change a tyre, how to shovel snow, how to stack wood. I learned how to meet… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“Hugo learned that Prometheus had created humankind out of mud, and then stolen fire from the gods as a gift for the… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Megalodons," Prometheus announced, pulling the Rukma higher and higher, little fountains of water spilling from the leaks in its sides. "They were… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
Can you get it? (Jaden) If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron) I’d rather trade places with Prometheus… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
To business."Tux Dude extended his hand. "I am Prometheus." I was too surprised to shake."The fire-stealer guy?The chained-to-the-rock-with-the-vultures guy?" Prometheus winced. He… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Then I’ll go keep our crocodile friends busy.” Niten’s teeth flashed in a smile. “I’ll try to leave a few for you.”… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
“I was not like them. Are you not? The voice was my uncle's, resonant and deep. Then you must think, Circe. What… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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