...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Those monsters that you saw as a child are now in you. They corrupted you They now control your insides and your… — Myothersweetangel199 Copy Share Image
“It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We see the Jew, then, in business, as promoter, money-lender, salesman par excellence, the author and chief instigator of a system of… — Samuel Roth Copy Share Image
Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The living always think that monsters roar and gnash their teeth. But I've seen that real monsters can be friendly; they can… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
They were on the set of Bad Santa, but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.” “Another world is colliding with this… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One thing that's a lot harder to put into stories than you'd think is the idea of a traditional monster, because monsters… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
[Robert] Aikman would write horror stories that weren't gore, they weren't slashers, and they weren't monster stories either. He called them ghost… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear. Oh no! A hairy brown… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Society's only real 'progressives' are the deviants and mutants. Look at evolution - fish who didn't deviate never became amphibians; frogs who… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat,… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way in the… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
“Truth is a battle of perceptions. People only see what they're prepared to confront. It's not what you look at that matters,… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Leaves that rustled, twigs that scraped and rattled. But the thin shapes weren't falling, they were scurrying head first down the tree-trunks… — Ramsey Campbell Copy Share Image
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers… — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
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