Frankenstein The Modern Prometheus Quotes & Sayings

I wondered if everyone had a secret like this, something slightly wretched, bent and corroded with time, like a lost key that might not even unlock anything anymore. And if, in the end, it might be the only thing that mattered. — Jessica Soffer

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won. — Bent Larsen

You know the Singaporean. He is a hard-working, industrious, rugged individual. Or we would not have made the grade. But let us also recognise that he is a champion grumbler. — Mr. Lee

You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C. — Carly Fiorina

If you are a child of God, you don't lose your status if you have a bad week. — Timothy Keller

Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access. — Carol Windley

Take the sailor," he said. "he signs on to a new ship. He's surrounded by nothing but strangers. Not only do they come from other towns and parts of his own country, but often from completely different nations. He has to learn to work with them. His vocabulary's broadened, he learns new words and grammar, and he comes across new ways of thinking. he turns into a different man, unlike the one who spends his life plowing the same old furrow. These are the men the world needs, not nationalists and warmongers. — Carsten Jensen

It's absurd that the same word is used to describe someone raping, torturing, mutilating, and killing a child; and someone stopping that perpetrator by shooting him in the head. The same word used to describe a mountain lion killing a deer by one quick bite to the spinal column is used to describe a civilized human playing smackyface with a suspect's child, or vaporizing a family with a daisy cutter. The same word often used to describe breaking a window is used to describe killing a CEO and used to describe that CEO producing toxins that give people cancer the world over. Check that: the latter isn't called violence, it's called production. — Derrick Jensen

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal — Henry A. Kissinger

What is one ever doing anywhere? — Christopher Isherwood

Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been drinking. — Dave Barry

While it is necessary to eat and therefore it is pleasantest to eat food that looks handsome and tastes good, on the other hand there are things I would far rather do than spend time in a kitchen. — Jo Coudert