Monsters Quotes - Page 23

• I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

  Guillermo del Toro

  Dark, Insects, Fetish

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• I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

  Vincent Price

  Revenge, Fate, Men

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster of marijuana he would drop dead of fright.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Faces, Cannabis

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• If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.

  George Carlin

  People, Water, Lobster

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• The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in meat production that it would tolerate nowhere else. If someone inflicts pain on an animal for visual, aural, or sexual gratification, we consider him a monster, and the law makes at least a token effort at punishment. If someone's goal is to put the "product" in his mouth?

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Pain, Cutting, Animal

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• Cry you little monsters!

  Otto Preminger

  Children, Littles, Cry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Two, Quests

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• As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.

  Nathaniel Philbrick

  Greatness, Men, Ahab

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• At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; . . . but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Men, Names

  John Calvin “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dog, Weather, Justice

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• For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.

  Anthony Weiner

  Sorry, Shadow, Aviation

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• Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!

  Walter Scott

  Dream, Kings, Blood

  Walter Scott (1869). “Poetical Works: Complete in One Volume with All His Introd. and Notes”, p.220

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• If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Failure, Math

  Quoted in J. W. N. Sullivan, Contemporary Mind (1934)

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• It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Powerful, Feelings, Looks

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

  Francisco Goya

  Mother, Dream, Art

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• I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.

  Jim Butcher

  Motivational, Boots, Ass

  Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.249, Penguin

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• O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils

  Joseph Alleine

  Angel, Men, Devil

  Joseph Alleine (2000). “An Alarm to the Unconverted”, p.21, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions.

  Tony Miles

  Champion, Chess, World

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• I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.

  Joe Manganiello

  Halloween, Kids, Dark

  "Joe Manganiello Exclusive Interview TRUE BLOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster from his slab began to rise And suddenly to my surprise... He did the mash He did the monster mash The monster mash It was a graveyard smash.

  Bobby Pickett

  Halloween, Eye, Night

  Song: Monster Mash

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• The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

  Margaret Millar

  Nice, Fall, Simple

  Margaret Millar (2016). “Beyond This Point Are Monsters”, p.111, Soho Press

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• I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.

  Ai Weiwei

  Strong, New York, Scary

  "Ai Weiwei: 'I Have to Speak for People Who Are Afraid'". Interview with Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.

  David Quammen

  People, Lions, Sacred

  David Quammen (2004). “Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.254, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. The movie is like an arrested adolescent's Google search run amok.

  Richard Corliss

  Running, Dream, Echoes

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• Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

  Christopher Bram

  Facts, Projects, Imaginative

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