Prometheus Stealing Fire Quotes

#1. There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

Brian Andreas

#2. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home.

Tom Robbins

#3. When we are stirred to lament the loss of the gods, it is more than likely the gods who are doing the stirring.

J.M. Coetzee

#4. You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.

Louis C.K.

#5. I'm one of those people that picks up the remote control and just keep hitting constantly, even if I like the show I'm watching.

Gilbert Gottfried

#6. I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself.

John Lasseter

#7. I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!

Tennessee Williams

#8. Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

Larry Wall

#9. I don't lead with an iron fist. I don't yell at people. I have a way of making my opinion clear.

Sophia Amoruso

#10. Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility

Naomi Novik

#11. A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it.

Spike Jonze

#12. Days like this, like your day today.
maybe the rain on the window trying to
get through to you. What do you see today?
what is it? where are you?
the best days are sometimes the first,
sometimes the middle and even sometimes the last

Charles Bukowski

#13. There's no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who'll help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!

Sinclair Lewis

#14. It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.

Joyce Kilmer

#15. Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man's technologies.

Neil MacGregor

#16. The one most valuable lesson humanity ought to have learned from philosophy is that it is impossible to make sense of truth without acknowledging God as the necessary starting point.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#17. When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.

Margaret Feinberg

#18. Every choice we make affects the other. It always has ... We share our choices and our burdens. But that way neither of us has to carry the weight alone - You have never been alone.

Olivia Fuller

#19. The insane and irrational springs of wickedness in most men ...

John Maynard Keynes