Monsters Quotes - Page 27

• Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all .

  Julie Kagawa

  Hero, Boys, Tales

  Julie Kagawa (2015). “Iron Fey Series Volume 2: The Iron Knight\Iron's Prophecy\The Lost Prince\The Iron Traitor”, p.117, Harlequin

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• You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.

  Julie Kagawa

  Up To You, Kind, No Turning Back

  "The Eternity Cure (Blood of Eden)". Book by Julie Kagawa, 2013.

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• Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

  Ryan Holiday

  Focus, May, Moments

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.35, Penguin

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• I try to express in my films things that no other art can approach. In my monster films for example, I use special effects in the same way one would use a special film stock, a special camera, and so on. Monster films permit me to use all of these elements at the same time. They are the most visual kind of film.

  Ishiro Honda

  Art, Special, Trying

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• The most important part of a RPG is the player feeling like they are taking the role of a character in a fully realised fantasy world. They can explore, visit various towns and places, talk to people, customise their character, collect various items, and defeat monsters. The story is not the focus of the experience and is only there to make the atmosphere of the fantasy world more interesting and engaging during the course of the game.

  Yuji Horii

  Character, Player, Games

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• Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain...

  Raymond Burr

  Ambition, Eye, Pride

  "Fictional character: Steve Martin". "Godzilla 1985", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Military, Men, Mirrors

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• On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.

  Nick Gordon

  Happy, Dream, Halloween

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• Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

  Charles Stross

  Business, Law, Brain

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• I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

  Teju Cole

  Real, Adore, Imaginary

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.16, Random House

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• How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious?

  Carl Jung

  Summer, Dark, Winter

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.101, Princeton University Press

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• I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.

  John McEnroe

  Thinking, Tennis, Percent

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• Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Lying, Cities, Feet

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.23, Stanford University Press

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• I actually saw the loch ness monster when I was 9. She was big as a house. Want to know who the loch ness monster is? It's your obese mother. Burn mother****er

  Thom Yorke

  Mother, House, Want

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• WE MADE A MONSTER OF HITLER, A DEVIL. THAT IS WHY (THEREFORE) WE COULD NOT AFTER THE WAR SAY OTHERWISE. WE HAD PERSONALLY MOBILISED THE MASSES NEVERTHELESS AGAINST THE DEVIL. THUS WE WERE FORCED AFTER THE WAR, TO PLAY ALONG WITH THIS DEVILS' SCENARIO. WE COULD NOT POSSIBLY HAVE MADE OUR PEOPLE CLEAR (TO THEM) THAT THE WAR WAS ONLY AN ECONOMIC PREVENTATIVE MEASURE!

  James Baker

  War, Play, People

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• If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?

  Piers Anthony

  Evil, Soul, Implied

  Piers Anthony (2002). “A Spell for Chameleon (Original Edition)”, p.141, Del Rey

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• An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hero, Dark, Artist

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• And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

  Patrick Ness

  Men, Normal

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Hands, Giants

  "Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel".

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• There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Wall, Black

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• I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on the contrary, my father...once laughingly told my mother that he thought I might suffer from a type of benign psychosis called "antiparanoia," in which I seemed to believe that I was the object of an intricate universal conspiracy to make me so happy I could hardly stand it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mother, Children, Father

  "All That" by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.

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• But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around-they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.

  Ransom Riggs

  Monday, Book, Years

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.18, Quirk Books

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• So many of the models of courage we've had, ones that are still taught to boys and girls, are about going out to slay the dragon, to kill. It's a courage that's born out of fear, anger, and hate. But there's this other kind of courage. It's the courage to risk your life, not in war, not in battle, not out of fear ... but out of love and a sense of injustice that has to be challenged. It takes far more courage to challenge unjust authority without violence than it takes to kill all the monsters in all the stories told to children about the meaning of bravery.

  Riane Eisler

  Girl, Children, Hate

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• Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.

  Beth Lisick

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• What makes a man a man are his deeds, his responsibilities, and his reactions... These things are also what makes a man a monster.

  Shannon Delany

  Responsibility, Men, Deeds

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