Author: Steven James

Cites

• Mitch Hedberg (1)
  • IN: Singularity (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Speech, US
• Socrates (1)
  • IN: Singularity (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
    FROM: Apology, (-399), NULL, Greece
• NULL (3)
  • IN: Placebo (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
    FROM: The Matrix, (1999), Film, US
  • IN: The King (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Dun vivimus viamus
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, Italy
  • IN: Every Crooked Path (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Society prepares the crime: the criminal commits it.
    FROM: Found in a fortune cookie next to two smiley faces, (None), Other?, NULL
• Edgar Allan Poe (1)
  • IN: Placebo (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?
    FROM: A Dream Within a Dream, (1849), Poem, US
• Weng Wei (1)
  • IN: Placebo (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who knows but that we all live out our lives in the maze of a dream?
    FROM: NULL, (750), NULL, China
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Opening Moves (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And if ye will not for all this hearken to me, but walk contrary unto me; Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. And ye shall eat flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
    FROM: Leviticus 26:27-29, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Anonymous (1)
  • IN: Checkmate (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: After the fame, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
    FROM: Italian Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
• Aesop (1)
  • IN: The King (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A Wasp settled on the head of a snake, and not only stung him several times, but clung obstinately to the head of his victim. Maddened with paint the Snake tried every means he could think of to get rid of the creature, but without success. At last he became desperate, and crying, "Kill you I will, even at the cost of my own life," he laid his head with the Wasp on it under the wheel of a passing wagon, and they both perished together.
    FROM: Aesop's Fables (The Wasp and the Snake), (-525), [NA], Greece
• Vladislav Kuznetsov (1)
  • IN: Every Deadly Kiss (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Although typically transmitted through aerosol means after six to eight days, with recent advances in synthetic biology, in time the variola virus could also, theoretically, be modified to transfer well before the patient is symptomatic.
    FROM: From an interview with Dr. Vladislav Kuznetsov in the Annals of Endemic and Infectious Disease, April 2002, Page 133., (2002), Interview, NULL
• Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1)
  • IN: Every Deadly Kiss (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: At the root of many of the mythical tales, according to some writers, one finds the never-ending battle between light and darkness, the former being usually symbolized by a hero, and the latter by a monster.
    FROM: From Bluebeard: An Account of Comorre the Cursed and Gilles de Rais, with Summaries of Various Tales and Traditions by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, 1902, page 12., (1902), Book, UK