Monsters Quotes - Page 31

• In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Animal, World, Earth

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• Next to an old-fashioned church social, or possibly a monster bridge party, there is no buzz which can equal the sibilant buzz ofa matinée.

  Robert Benchley

  Party, Bridges, Church

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• English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

  George Mikes

  Strong, Suspicion, Loch Ness Monster

  George Mikes (2016). “English Humour for Beginners”, p.7, Penguin UK

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• That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.

  Samuel Beckett

  Time, Damnation, Salvation

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.461, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.

  Jose Marti

  Fall, West Indies, Land

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• I'm not suggesting that all men are beautiful, vulnerable boys, but we all started out that way. What happened to us? How did we become monsters of feminist nightmares? The answer, of course, is that we underwent a careful and deliberate process of gender training, sometimes brutal, always dehumanizing, cutting away large chunks of ourselves. Little girls went through something similarly crippling. If the gender training was successful, we each ended up being half a person.

  Frank Pittman

  Beautiful, Girl, Cutting

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• There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.

  Elizabeth I

  Moving, Allies, World

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• In Monster's Ball I went nude, which was scary, but I took the chance and that's how I like to approach my career.

  Halle Berry

  Careers, Scary, Balls

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• a fortress against ideas and against the
  Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors
  The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy
  Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.

  Louis MacNeice

  Men, Ideas, Crumbling

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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• We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to livein our room at night. Nevertheless, those memories are still there, somewhere inside us, and can sometimes be brought to the surface by events, sights, sounds, or smells. Children, though, can never have grown-up feelings until they've been allowed to do the growing.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Memories, Night

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• ... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.

  Leontyne Price

  Art, Voice, Race

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• ... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell

  Creation, Feminine, Femininity

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• I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.

  Denis O'Hare

  Love Is, Thinking, Interesting

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• The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.

  Thomas Huxley

  Real, Oedipus, Views

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• Well, at least I have the satisfaction of having destroyed a terrible monster, and in doing so rid the world of an awful curse.

  Griffin Jay

  Achievement, World, Awful

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• Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word I like to use, rather than monstrous - as the sympathetic characters in the painting. It's interesting because some people will get it right away, but a common reaction is to be a little off-put by it. And that is the whole idea. If it grabs somebody in a negative way, that's my intention.

  Chris Mars

  Character, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always thought that for me the unassuming, friendly looking guy next door is certainly scarier as a monster than the monsterish looking predator, because he can lure people in, it's easier.

  Franck Khalfoun

  Doors, People, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.

  Steven Moffat

  Challenges, Looks, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Betrayal, Philosophy, War

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Some people are sass monsters on twitter. Like honey, you need to chill.

  Ashton Irwin

  People, Sass, Needs

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2014

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• Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Soul

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• Of course
  the New Testament is very small.
  Its mouth opens four times
  as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster,
  yet somehow man-made.

  Anne Sexton

  Bible, Men, Mouths

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me tobe doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.... The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Office, Twelve

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.6, Xist Publishing

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• To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the dentist,the shortcomings of your cleaning woman, the state of your bowels, or your spouse's bad habits. You will be thought a paragon (or perhaps a monster) of good behavior.

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Unhappy Childhood, Bored

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• The Loch Ness monster doesn't exist either. Loch Ness is just not big enough to hide a thirty foot amphibian or reptile for hundreds of years.

  Brian Jones

  Years, Feet, Reptiles

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

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