Monsters Quotes - Page 28

• Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Color, Worry, Mind

  Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.46, Thomas Nelson

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• If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

  Steven Moffat

  Office, Toys, Said

  "Steven Moffat: The man with a monster of a job". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2010.

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• Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Heaven, Impossible

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852). “The Blithedale Romance”, p.14

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• Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Men, Strange

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.387

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• No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Flower, Snakes, Yellow

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• The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.

  Adrienne Rich

  Ocean, Moon, Depth

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• A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it. Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, monster incomprehensible, raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Women, Knowing, Evil

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• Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

  William S. Burroughs

  Men, Race, Traitor

  William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

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• Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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• I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.

  Billy Carter

  Redneck, Thinking, May

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• The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Octopus, Gossip, Arms

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• If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

  A. N. Wilson

  Morning, Lunch, Active

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• I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?

  Socrates

  Farewell, Passion, Ignorance

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• Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Self, Persons

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think Party Monster is one of those.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Party, Unique, Thinking

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

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• I've got a Range Rover and a little Mercedes. I normally drive my Range Rover because I feel like a monster in it. Nobody messes with me.

  Emma Bunton

  Littles, Range, Feels

  "Bye-bye Baby" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2006.

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• I was a monster, a problem child.

  Shaun White

  Children, Problem, Problem Child

  "Q&A: Shaun White". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2010.

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• I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

  Max Brooks

  Summer, Thinking, Choices

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview, Part One". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

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• The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.

  Antony Beevor

  Dream, People, Together

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• I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.

  Rick Baker

  Makeup, People, Want

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• I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.

  Rick Baker

  Teenager, Doe, Different

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• I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.

  Eliza Coupe

  Want, Comedy, Dramatic

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

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• One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Tattoo, Real, Reading

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• I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

  Dorothy Allison

  Sports, Thinking, Understanding

  San Francisco Focus, www.imdb.com. December 23, 1996.

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• I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

  Nick Denton

  Character, Mind, Tabloids

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