Frankenstein 1831 Quotes & Sayings

An old black ram is tupping your white ewe — William Shakespeare

Geese were orderly beings, with principles and systems, whose existence denied all superiority of individual over individual of the same species (176). — Alejo Carpentier

We see but in dreams the ideal. — Henri Cazalis

I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said it would be to work every day ... Your job is to write. The rest of it will take care of itself. But, generally, it seems ... you know how that is, you meet people and they have a talent for self-promotion. Those are the pushy people. And you know their writing's not going to be any good, because that's not their talent. — David Sedaris

Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery. We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep ourselves from slipping mechanically into this or that sub-personality. Thus we become able to identify with each part of our being as we wish. We can have more choice. It is the difference between being impotently transported by a roller coaster and, instead, driving a car and being able to choose which way to go and for what purpose to make the journey. — Piero Ferrucci

If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my tongue. The same goes for dialog: I'll either speak it aloud or whisper it. I definitely sit in front of my computer and mutter. People have mentioned it. — Terence Winter

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body. — William Cobbett

Our lives are just our genes and our upbringing. We simply act out the script that was forced upon us. — Orson Scott Card

Its not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don't like hearing, & seeing the grey amongst the black & white. — April Mae Monterrosa

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me. — Franz Kline