Monsters Quotes - Page 5

• I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.

  Frederick Douglass

  Sad, Country, Depressing

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.409, Library of America

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• America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

  John Quincy Adams

  Peace, War, America

  "Speech of July 4, 1821". John Quincy Adams " The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotation. Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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• I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Useless, Ugly

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• The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

  John le Carre

  Wise, Cheating, Childhood

  "John le Carre: A man of great intelligence" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Daylight, Normal

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• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Anger, Pride

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• When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Sports, Golf, Looks

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• I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

  George A. Romero

  Halloween, Blue, Ideas

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• My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

  Paula Danziger

  Sarcastic, Mother, Father

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• But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people

  Isabelle Huppert

  People, Trying, Connections

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

  John Goodman

  Guy, Pixar, Sequels

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• Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.

  Hank Azaria

  Work Out, Godzilla

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It wasnt the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say theyve played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.

  David Thewlis

  Kings, People, Special

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• Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Cities, Squash

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• When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Ohio, Giants

  Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Thinking, Blood

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.15, Random House

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• The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.

  John le Carre

  Childhood, Detachment, Fades

  "John le Carré: A man of great intelligence" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

  George A. Romero

  Blue, Zombie, Collars

  George A. Romero, Tony Williams (2011). “George A. Romero: Interviews”, p.174, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Culture, Mythology, Areas

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• May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

  Daniel Boone

  War, Ambition, Land

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.25, Applewood Books

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• But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

  Brian Lumley

  Romantic, Crazy, Evil

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• It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

  Rona Barrett

  Soul, Ironic, Finals

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• Behind every tree there's a new monster.

  Todd Rundgren

  Halloween, Tree, Behinds

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

  Virginia Satir

  Inspirational, Teenage, People

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• The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

  Wes Craven

  Halloween, Scare, Firsts

  "Wes Craven, Scream and Nightmare on Elm Street Director, Dies at 76" by Matt Patches, www.esquire.com. August 31, 2015.

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