Monsters Quotes - Page 3

• The ego is a fascinating monster.

  Alanis Morissette

  Ego, Fascinating

  "'I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing'". Interview with Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

  Wes Craven

  Nice, Doe, Cards

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• I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Play, Able, Madmen

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

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• When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hate, Self Loathing, Expressing Anger

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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• See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

  Heath Ledger

  Dark, Curves, Knights

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", 2008.

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• There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

  Major Taylor

  Color, Battle, Prejudice

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Halloween, Fighting, Care

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• I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.

  Adrian Lyne

  Balls, Done, Littles

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• What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Ocean, Sleep

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• Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Meaningful, Real, Believe

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• A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

  Kelly Link

  Inspirational, Girl, Teenager

  Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.360, Canongate Books

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• Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

  John Irving

  Memories, Thinking, Forget

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.46, Random House

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• Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.

  Lalla Ward

  Sick, Bakers, Favourite

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

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• I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Men, Naked

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• The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

  Andres Segovia

  Music, Piano, Teeth

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• Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

  Francisco Goya

  Mother, Wisdom, Art

  Francisco de Goya, Peter Russell (2016). “Delphi Complete Paintings of Francisco de Goya (Illustrated)”, p.90, Delphi Classics

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• There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Fear, Halloween

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• I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

  Camille Pissarro

  Jewels, Canvas, Sometimes

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• I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Lawyer, Politician

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• To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

  Denis Diderot

  Love, Passion, Order

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

  Patrick MacGill

  Night, Goal, Looks

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

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• History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.

  David McCullough

  Betrayal, Book, Reading

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• One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

  Aldous Huxley

  Character, Home, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.

  Jo Brand

  Running, Couple, Ideas

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• And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

  Jerry Falwell

  Islamic, World, Driving

  "Transcript of Pat Robertson's Interview with Jerry Falwell". "The 700 Club" with Pat Robertson, archive.commondreams.org. September 13, 2001.

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