Monsters Quotes - Page 33

• This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

  John Steinbeck

  Land, America, Travels With Charley

  John Steinbeck (2012). “Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.31, Penguin

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• The Hulk is the most difficult Marvel property because it's always about balance. Is he a monster? Is he a hero? Are you going to root for a protagonist who spends all his time trying to stop the reason you came to the movie from happening? It's always a dance

  Joss Whedon

  Hero, Roots, Balance

  Source: deadline.com

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• Much of the research on the Nazi era makes a science out of distancing oneself from it or conjuring its demons. The conceit is that people were monsters then - as if they were completely different from people today.

  Gotz Aly

  People, Different, Research

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.

  Thomas Merton

  Children, Character, Reality

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• I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into the plays of Aeschylus and follow what happens when people seek revenge, and there are people plucking their eyes out. And Greek mythology is filled with all kinds of monsters and whatnot.

  Wes Craven

  Revenge, Eye, Civilization

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I've always been a horror fan! Ever since I can vastly remember, and I think it's because I was so terrified of monsters and ghosts as a kid that I had to sleep in front of my parents room until I was 12.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Kids, Sleep, Thinking

  "Fantasia 2014: A Gothic Interview With Matthew Gray Gubler". Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.yellmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Dark, Drawing, Ghost Stories

  "Fantasia 2014: A Gothic Interview With Matthew Gray Gubler". Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.yellmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be!

  John Hodgman

  Children, Wish, Only Child

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hydra, Untouchability

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Subtle, Form, Untouchability

  Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

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• I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

  Denzel Washington

  Logic, Make Sense, Ifs

  "Denzel Washington and Daniel Espinosa talk WikiLeaks and Controversy". Interview, thefancarpet.com. February 20, 2012.

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• It's fun to sit down and do a few drawings, but when you have to sit down and do hundreds of drawings whose value only depends on getting to the end of the chain, then you've created a different kind of monster.

  Gary Panter

  Fun, Drawing, Different

  Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.

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• When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I'm creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. But I never let them get in the way of the monsters.

  China Mieville

  Writing, Horror Stories, Creating

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• What's more important is that the monsters are controllable by the players.Pikachu is like the name of the species. But each player can name their own Pikachu. So kids can relate to it more. They get more attached to them that way.

  Satoshi Tajiri

  Kids, Player, Names

  Source: therandominmyhead.tumblr.com

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• The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation of encountering life in a stylized way - all of this is the equivalent of mainlining of paleolithic emotions, emotions about combat, about personal success, about overcoming monsters, about making powerful friendships, about winning wars and entering new territory.

  E. O. Wilson

  Children, Powerful, War

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• It is very different. I mean, it was immediately different because it's a human being and it's not a vampire and it's not fighting monsters. This isn't the kind of movie that's got the comic book style of fighting to it. It was a bit more gritty.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Book, Mean, Fighting

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Americans are not going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich ... There can be no place on earth where it is safe for these monsters to rest,or train or practice their cruel and deadly. We must act together - or unilateraly, if necessary - to ensue that these terrorists have no sanctuary, anywhere.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, War, Practice

  A speech to the American Bar Association after the TWA Flight 847 hijacking, June 14, 1985.

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• The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.

  Paul Johnson

  Fear, Evil, Envy

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• The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

  Ben Folds

  Intelligent, Groups, Individual

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• War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

  Charles Mackay

  War, Eye, Men

  Charles Mackay (1846). “Voices from the Crowd: And Other Poems”, p.23

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• If the Christian religion, as I understand it, or as you understand it, should maintain its ground, as I believe it will, yet Platonic, Pythagoric, Hindoo, and cabalistical Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1500 years, has received a mortal wound, of which the monster must finally die. Yet so strong is his constitution, that he may endure for centuries before he expires.

  John Adams

  Christian, Strong, Believe

  Letter to Thomas Jefferson, "The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States," Volume 10, July 16, 1814.

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• To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.

  John Carpenter

  Men, Scary, Michael Myers

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• If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has
  already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can
  become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes
  you cannot now imagine.

  Martha Beck

  Teacher, Mind, Looks

  "How to fail your way to success" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2008.

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• We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.

  Mike Carey

  Shows

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• Sylvia Day spins a gorgeous adventure in A Touch of Crimson that combines gritty, exciting storytelling with soaring lyricism. Adrian is my favorite kind of hero--an alpha male angel determined to win the heart of his heroine, Lindsay, while protecting her from his lethal enemy. Lindsay is a gutsy, likable woman with paranormal abilities of her own, as well as a dedication to protecting humanity against a race of demonic monsters. This is definitely a book for your keeper shelf.

  Angela Knight

  Book, Hero, Adventure

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