Monsters Quotes
1041 quotes by 676 authors
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
— J. J. Abrams
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Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
— Margaret Atwood
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
— Honore de Balzac
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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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…
— Charles Baudelaire
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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
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One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster…
— Jo Brand
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I can see every monster as they come in.
— Truman Capote
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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…
— John le Carre
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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
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Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our…
— Gary Allan
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I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother…
— Kyle Chandler
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
— Charlie Chaplin
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or…
— Emile M. Cioran
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All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.
— Jack Abramoff
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I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and…
— Tori Amos
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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
— James Madison
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,…
— Thomas Paine
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster…
— Octavio Paz
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