“Victor Frankenstein: I've only one other question: Why me? Sir Malcolm Murray: Because you were unafraid to pull back the skin and look beneath.”Tagged: Question, unafriad, pull back the skin, curious
“I see a man who's been accustomed to wealth, but has given himself to excess and the unbridled pleasures of youth. A man much more complicated than he likes to appear.”Tagged: Wealth, complex, excess, Youth, pleasures
“Malcolm Murray: You have the soul of a poet, sir. Victor Frankenstein: And the bank account to match.”Tagged: Soul, Poet, bank account, poor, Money
“I thought of a particular lion hunt many years ago. You're moving through the tall grass, getting a glimpse of the prey, the shoulders mostly, the mane. You prepare your rifle. You're very quiet. And then there's a moment. The wind changes, the grass stops swaying. The lion turns, looks at you. The…”Tagged: Memory, Lions, Predator, Prey, hunt
“There is only one worthy goal for scientific exploration... piercing the tissue that separates life from death. Everything else, from the deep bottom of the sea to the top of the highest mountain on the farthest planet, is insignificant.”Tagged: Science, Life And Death, insignificant, scientific exploration
“The ancient Egyptian religions were unique in a way. They had a singular goal. Not transmutation to an afterlife, but something even more profound: eternal life.”Tagged: Egyptians, Religion, unique, Eternal Life, Profound
“You do not belong here. Even less than I. You are not frivolous. Your eye is careful and appraising. This is not a careful room, although there is much to appraise. That can divert you for only so long. You do not like it here.”Tagged: do not belong here, Careful, apprasing, do not like it
“Galsworthy: They're not for the fainthearted. Sir Malcolm Murray: My heart has never fainted.”Tagged: heart, Strong, Brave, Not for the fainthearted
“You see, you're hunting for a man. You need to start hunting for a beast”Tagged: Hunting, Man, Beast
“Your hands want to touch, but your head wants to appraise. Your heart is torn between the two.”Tagged: hand, heart, Touch, Torn, Head
“Man does not live only in the empirical. We must seek the ephemeral, or why live?”Tagged: Life, Living, Empirical, ephemeral
“My mother taught me many things. Among the most useful is that one must always have Shakespeare at hand.”Tagged: mother, useful, shakespeare, Teaching The young
“Dr. Victor Frankenstein: I cannot unmake the past! The Creature: I'm not concerned with the past, only the future.”Tagged: Past, Future, Moving Forward, Cannot change the past
“There is a place where the malformed find grace, where the hideous can be beautiful, where strangeness is not shunned but celebrated. This place is the theater.”Tagged: malformed, Grace, find, Hideous, Beautiful
“I learned to stay in the shadows. To protect such a heart as this you gave me.”Tagged: Shadows, Abandoned, Learning, Protect Your Heart
“You seek to threaten me with death? If you seek to threaten me, threaten me with life.”Tagged: Threat, Life, Death, Threaten