Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk,… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“The name Prometheus has always caused me particular annoyance, for my breast still aches from the everlasting beak of the vulture from… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share Image
They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done.” — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he? — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
“Modern man became a Prometheus, believing himself a god capable of transforming anything and everything at will. “When God has become invisible… — Mark Lilla 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
“Then Prometheus, in his perplexity as to what preservation he could devise, stole from Hephaestus and Athena wisdom in the arts together… — Plato 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
“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
“I can answer it,” he said. “I can tell you who is John Galt.” “Really? Everybody seems to know him, but they… — Ayn Rand 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
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Heavenly Fire by Stewart Stafford The Stygian hole of abandon, Overlaid with a sentry 's cloak, Now unmasked eyes can see, Perforations… — Stewart Stafford 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
“Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting him up, were it… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
The story of 'Prometheus' is the idea that if you're given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do… — Ridley Scott 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
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
...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
“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
Man must get back to himself before he can learn his relation to his fellows. Prometheus chained to the Rock of Ages… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“This belonged to my sister-in-law," Prometheus explained. "Pandora." A lump formed in my throat. "As in Pandora's box?" Prometheus shook his head.… — Rick Riordan 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
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
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
“Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech - and both… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“Niten drew in a deep shuddering breath and the air was suffused with the delicate odor of green tea. “And Tsagaglalal .… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
