Prefabricated Quotes

#1. Protogen is in a position to take sole possession of not only the first technology of genuinely extraterrestrial origin, but also a prefabricated mechanism for the manipulation of living systems and the first clues as to the nature of the larger - I will call it galactic - biosphere.

James S.A. Corey

#2. The masculine heart needs a place where nothing is prefabricated, modular, nonfat, zip lock, franchised, on-line, microwavable. Where there are no deadlines, cell phones, or committee meetings. Where there is room for the soul.

John Eldredge

#3. Who wasn't squatting in one of the handful of prefabricated subject positions proffered by capital or whatever you wanted to call it, lying every time she said "I"; who wasn't a bit player in a looped infomercial for the damaged life?

Ben Lerner

#4. A single three-bladed fan turned slowly in the centre of the ceiling, barely disturbing the scorching air which filled the small prefabricated hut like an oven...

Kevin Cowdall

#5. I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.

Woody Allen

#6. Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

Jane Jacobs

#7. Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.

Ben Lerner

#8. You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a "thing"; he needs a special way of looking similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs .

Anthony De Mello

#9. My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.

Sigmar Gabriel

#10. We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

Winston Churchill

#11. Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.

David Lodge

#12. Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

Frantz Fanon

#13. When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

Michael Franti

#14. If you live," I whispered, "I'll let you call me your dear. I won't complain, I promise.

Kiera Cass

#15. The earth doesn't care where death occurs ... It's the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking a photograph of it, that makes the earth powerful and creates death's memory. Because the land will not remember by itself, but the artist will.

Sally Mann

#16. All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on a bad, gloomy planet, to be colourful and creative seems so promising.

Michael Leunig

#17. Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up?

Heather Brewer

#18. Worked hard to blend himself into Earth society - with,

Douglas Adams

#19. Ben Affleck exec-produced a documentary for HBO called 'Reporter' about my 2007 win-a-trip journey. I take the trip each year partly to encourage young people to think about global humanitarian issues: I think blogs by a student may be more compelling for that audience than my own work.

Nicholas Kristof

#20. Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Jean Giraudoux

#21. I only know how to do me, so that's just what I'm going to do.

Lana Del Rey

#22. I still think Barty must be a crook,

Carolyn Keene

#23. Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.

Ted Turner