Prometheus Quotes

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If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?

Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night.

When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.

He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.

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.

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

I've never had to explain Prometheus to people, ever. Most people get it.

Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time.

This belonged to my sister-in-law, " Prometheus explained. "Pandora."A lump formed in my throat. "As in Pandora's

Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while it burns their hands?