Monsters Quotes - Page 29

• I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

  Anne Enright

  Roots, Stories, Narrative

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• Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Self Esteem, Snacks, Childhood

  Song: Vampires, Mummies And The Holy Ghost, Album: Fruitcakes, 1994

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• We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

  Robert Hayden

  Struggle, Evil, Political

  Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Knowing Who You Are, Knights, Reason

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• There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

  Lena Headey

  Looks, Genius, Ugly

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• I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Horror Genre, Style, Directors

  "Bong Joon-ho Exclusive Interview - TOKYO!" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 18, 2009.

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• They did the Monster Mash, it was a grave yard smash.

  Bobby Pickett

  Dancing, Yards, Graves

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• Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Ties, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.402

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• He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dog, Treasure, Pearls

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• The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

  Philip Sidney

  Pain, Life And Death, Hell

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• Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

  Amy Poehler

  Rude, Ego, Tables

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.

  Robert E. Howard

  Heart, Men, Wings

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “ROBERT E. HOWARD Ultimate Collection – 300+ Cult Classics, Adventure Novels, Western, Horror & Detective Stories, Historical Books (Including Poetry, Essays, Articles & Letters) - ALL in One Volume): Sword & Sorcery Fiction Including Complete Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane and Kull the Conqueror Series, as well as Weird Fiction, Fantasy Stories of the Weird West, The Cthulhu Mythos Tales and more”, p.1238, e-artnow

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• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.175

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• We make my opponent out as a monster. We focus on his strengths because that's what we need to negate.

  Joe Lauzon

  Mma, Focus, Needs

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• Man without mysticism is a monster.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Mysticism

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.83, Regnery Publishing

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• What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Cutting, Men, Yawning

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• Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

  Andrew Davidson

  Democracy, Fraud

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.394, Anchor

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• Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

  Honore de Balzac

  Habit, Should, Combat

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• Heavy role in the movies that I've done that I have loved and fit my soul; A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, One False Move, Bad Santa even. I mean Bad Santa is a comedy, and it's a very dark comedy, and it's become like iconic, you know.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Moving, Mean, Dark

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. ... It would be far, far better for us to let a thousand devils roam the world, and publicly preach the doctrine of devils (if there were such a thing, which there isn't), than to let one impostor and monster such a Moses, Joshua, Samuel or the Bible prophets come speaking the so-called word of God, and causing men to believe it.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Men, Race

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• Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Country, Police, Socialism

  "Les Temps modernes". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, p. 184, 1961.

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• In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Littles, Wreckage, Bigger

  Robert L. Heilbroner (2011). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.

  Quentin Crisp

  Children, Greek, World

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 3, 1968.

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• The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster.

  Coventry Patmore

  Women, Vanity, Giving

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.20, Lulu.com

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