Frankenstein Chapter 14 Quotes & Sayings

Nepotism is despised in England, which is a very good thing. I think something to do with the class system. People really look down on nepotism. So yeah, it never really works in your favor - even in this industry. — Max Irons

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. — Wilson Mizner

I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that. — Lars Mikkelsen

It's only a thought and a thought can be changed. Choose good ones. — Wayne Dyer

The dream that I've been having, about my high-school sweetheart, is not really about my high-school sweetheart, when you get right down to it. It's not a dream about Alison Koechner and our lost love and the precious little three-bedroom house in Maine we might have built together, had things gone a different way. I am not dreaming of white picket fences and Sunday crosswords and warm tea.
There's no asteroid in the dream. In the dream, life continues. Simple life, happy and white-picket lined or otherwise. Mere life. Goes on.
When I'm dreaming of Alison Koechner, what I'm dreaming of is not dying. — Ben H. Winters

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others. — Francois-Henri Pinault

The National Park Service actually has something of a tradition of making things extinct. — Bill Bryson

You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert, a real pro at mindfulness and personal calming. You honor your writing space by affirming that you matter, that your writing life matters, and that your current writing project matters. You honor your writing space by entering it with this mantra: "I am ready to work." You enter, grow quiet, and vanish into your writing. — Eric Maisel

This should be the most homoerotically charged baseball dance number since "I Don't Dance" in High School Musical 2. — David Levithan

You're tough enough to take it." "Everything." Every rough, raw part of him, head to toe. Body and soul. — Kit Rocha

Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd. — Tim Ward

We made this! It's so beautiful. The word lay beyond the rest of the team's list of formal descriptors. It seemed to have a real referent; the new woman apparently meant something when she used it. Beauty might even have had some physical reality, some selective advantage conferred over the last billion or so years. But what formal rules the quality adhered to, what behaviors it meant to elicit, not even Spider Lim's body could begin to guess. — Richard Powers

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. — Barbara Hepworth

There is a certain irony in the fact that Britain gave the world nearly all its most important geological names - Devonian, Cambrian, Silurian, Ordovician - but that the one epoch that everybody knows about is named for the Jura Mountains in France, even though the Dorset coast is actually the best place in the world to see Jurassic outcrops. — Bill Bryson