Monsters Quotes - Page 35

• Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.

  Marlen Haushofer

  Skins, Branches, Want

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• The theme of the collection this time is MONSTER. It's not about the typical Monster you find in sci-fi and video games. The expression of the Monsters I have made has a much deeper meaning. The craziness of humanity, the fear we all have, the feeling of going beyond common sense, the absence of ordinariness, expressed by something extremely big, by something that could be ugly or beautiful. In other words, I wanted to question the established standards of beauty.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Beautiful, Expression, Games

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• I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

  Eric Stoltz

  Real, Believe, Zippers

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.

  Carole Bouquet

  Hollywood, Done, Scripts

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• There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty and revenge, unless it be the New Testament, which arms its God with hell, and extends his outrages throughout all eternity!

  Helen H. Gardener

  Revenge, Book, Atheism

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• I'm telling you, monsters aren't born, they're made.

  CJ Roberts

  Born, Made

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• American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Superman's relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But it's still a story about your relatives visiting.

  Grant Morrison

  Dog, Powerful, Writing

  "The Super Psyche of Comic Book Shaman Grant Morrison". Interview with Gavin Edwards, www.playboy.com. April 18, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jenny Offill

  Art, Married, Umbrella

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.11, Vintage

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

  Jenny Offill

  Art, Married, Plans

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.11, Vintage

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• Theres nothing to fear but
  fears themselves, such as monsters,
  rejection, food poisoning, redundancy,
  monsters, and oxford commas.

  Craig Benzine

  Oxford, Rejection, Poisoning

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• And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the screen. There's nothing like watching Anaconda with your best friend or lying in bed next to your mother reading Roald Dahl, because that way you get to explore dark stuff safely. You get to laugh with it, to step out on the vampire's dance floor and take him for a spin, and then step back into your life. When you make friends with fear, it can't rule you.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Fear, Lying

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor

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• Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the Soviet Union from its critics in the now famous: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

  Lance Morrow

  Hero, Ukraine, Eggs

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• But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and you will have little trouble believing that things can appear and disappear in this labyrinthine city, or that time here could easily slip in its sprockets and take you, willingly or unwillingly, back.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Fog, Cities

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• Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and a gain through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the one never meets again.

  Virginia Woolf

  Weed, Prayer, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• When we hold it (amber) in our hands, we hold also that furious epoch where rioted all monsters and poisons, where death fecundated and life destroyed, where superabundance demanded such existences, no souls, but fiercest animal fire - just for that I hate it!

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

  Hate, Animal, Fire

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alfred Bendixen (1989). “The Amber Gods, and Other Stories”, p.56, Rutgers University Press

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• What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspiration, Men, Novelty

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.133, Letcetera Publishing

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• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Necks, Elbows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.175

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• Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Thinking, Space

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• The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I had understood that henceforth I must interrogate the evidence of Photography, not from the viewpoint of pleasure, but in relation to what we romantically call love and death.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Winter, Secret

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• You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Baby, Order, Way

  "I can be a real arrogant brat" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2003.

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• Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

  Anais Nin

  Self, World, Demon

  "House of Incest". Book by Anais Nin, 1936.

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• No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Strong, Negative, Sacred

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• To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

  Byron Katie

  Looks, Nightmare, Universe

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.

  Brad Meltzer

  Thinking, Evil, Littles

  Brad Meltzer (2009). “The Book of Lies”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Omnipotence, Pieces

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.167, A&C Black

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