Quotes and Sayings About Monsters
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Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
-- A. A. Milne -
Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
-- A. N. Wilson -
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.
-- Adam Dunn -
Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e veille e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.
-- Alain Robbe-Grillet -
You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.
-- Alastair Reynolds -
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic, [and] court intrigues. It's also really, really good.
-- Alex Bledsoe -
Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.
-- Alexander Anderson -
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
-- Alexander Pope -
I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones. No you aren't, he promised. Your one of us.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words
-- Alfred de Vigny -
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
-- Alfred Jarry -
Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
-- Alice Sebold -
I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.
-- Alyson Hannigan -
I don't particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness.
-- Amanda Marcotte -
I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.
-- Amber Sealey -
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.
-- Anais Nin -
The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
-- Anais Nin -
Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.
-- Anais Nin -
The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
-- Andres Segovia -
Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?
-- Andrew Davidson -
Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.
-- Andrew Pyper -
People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves... they feel better then. They find it easier to live.
-- Andrzej Sapkowski -
Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?
-- Angela Carter
