Monsters Quotations | Page 2

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

Writing monsters is fun, and it's easy. When I want one, I just reach under the bed and pull it out, kicking and screaming.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

The monster London laugh at me.

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.

We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters...

The Monster’s crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They get punished for it, but we've enjoyed the spectacle of their liberation.

Midian is where the monsters go.

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin

A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him

Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?

History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.

I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

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

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

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 Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made....

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.

I am a monster. I am the Son of Sam. I love to hunt.

There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an unholy monster impersonating a human. Monstralization, maybe?

There is no greater monster than reason.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.

There is definitely an international fascination with American pop culture, and most especially with the monsters of its own creation. But the July 7 bombings had such a profound effect on Londoners. When they realized the people who did this had grown up in their midst, they could not look externally for answers.

Do we sound like monsters who crawled out of a swamp to eat little kids? It's beyond belief in my brain. Everybody's just painted us - I don't have words for it.

Don't go out in the world and get chased by monsters and madmen. Don't make enemies.

Anne Rice really doesn't explore vampires as hideous monsters of the night, they're ancient creatures with a heart. And they want to be loved and they want connections just like we do.

The tree-hugging Tolkien freaks, once they get around to seeing the movie and reading the books, tend to go on to read other things that he did. In 1936 he gave a British Academy lecture called Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, which is still one of the most fabulous things that's been written.

The monsters are a little silly because they had no money, so obviously they can't show them for very long, ... But the film itself is a romp; a very bloody, goofy, scary one.

This is an important piece of legislation that would protect our children from heinous monsters who seek to abuse them. When you exercise your power, good things happen for Maine.

A lot of people are surprised by my love of heavy metal. I fell in love with heavy metal almost before any other genre. One of the first concerts I went to was a Donnington Monsters Of Rock concert.

The best theatre is right here between my ears. That's where the biggest monsters are, that's where the scariest stuff happens. You learn that by reading, and you learn that by interacting with an adult, a parent, an older sibling, a friend, whoever, somebody who guides you along the way.

(Children) still cannot tell the difference between fantasy and reality until about 8. That is why they believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and monsters under the bed.

I couldn't draw anything that was too outlandish or too horrible. I never did that. What I did draw was something intriguing. There was something about this monster that you could live with. If you saw him you wouldn't faint dead away.

My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in comics.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

Not all the monsters have fangs.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

I know there are monsters on this earth,' said Tessa. 'You cannot tell me otherwise. I have seen them.

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

If you establish an identity, you build a monster-and thats right, youve got to live with it. Of course, you can enjoy it, too.

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters

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

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical,...

I'm a very neat monster." ~Dexter Morgan

She was a monster, but she was my monster.

Somewhere in the land, a monster lurked.

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

Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition.

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

Ive never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of the movie, ... What the Ghostbusters represented was the triumph of human courage and human ingenuity. People create their own monsters. Our fears come from within us, not outside.

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?

Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

The dream of reason produces monsters

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!

I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."

The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic--the abnormally chromatic entity in "The Colour Out of Space" being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead,

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.

I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.

My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do.

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

The Nephilim - the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters.

I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?

So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.' 'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.

He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it...because it wore the face of a friend.

May all of your cards be live and may all of your pots be monsters,

Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.