Monster Quotes

• It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man. His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle. And his features were fair, I suppose, but he was a stranger and that somehow was the greatest shock of all- that I had been lying all these months beside a complete stranger.

  

  Edith Pattou
  • Horror
  • Stranger
  • Bright

• Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Monster
  • Devoured

• War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

  

  Charles Mackay
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally.

  

  Matt Reeves
  • Interesting
  • Monster

• I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.

  

  Joe Manganiello
  • Black
  • Dark
  • Halloween

• In a way, Captain America is the most grounded of the main Marvel superheroes. He is basically just a man, only more so. He doesn't fly across the sky like Iron Man. He isn't from another world like Thor. He doesn't turn into a green monster.

  

  Anthony Russo
  • World
  • America
  • Sky

• Gordon Ramsay, the only chef in London honored with three stars by the 'Guide Michelin,' is not a monster.

  

  Bill Buford
  • Monster

• I think world creation and monster creation and all of that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling. When it becomes more important than storytelling, I get very nervous, and you sort of lose me a little bit.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • World
  • Important
  • Monster

• There is a red and angry world... Red things happen there. The world eats your wife... Eats your friends... Eats all the things... that make you human... And you become a monster. And the world... just keeps on eating.

  

  Alan Moore
  • World
  • Friends
  • Wife

• When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Monster
  • Repression
  • Emerge

• Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such monsters, however, have existed; and the heart almost bleeds at the recital of the cruel acts such have been guilty of; it teaches us, however, what human nature is when left to itself; not only treacherous, but desperately wicked.

  

  Charles Buck
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Reason

• Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Art
  • Science
  • Alone

• Monsters are a departure from 'reality' in a way that allows for a range of fantastic possibilities. I mean this within the world of literature as well as in regards to art. When I sit down to draw, I'm energized by the possibility of creating a monster. That is where I find beauty and pathos.

  

  Emil Ferris
  • World
  • Art
  • Reality

• This system is a monster, ... In this decade, I believe we are going to double our audience.

  

  J Allard
  • Audience
  • System
  • Double

• I figure if someone calls something a 'Draugr,' people can figure out that it's a monster or some sort of mythic creature, and if they want to know more, there's plenty of information out there about those mythic creatures.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • People
  • Monster

• We didn't take Charlize Theron seriously until she did 'Monster' and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Women
  • She
  • Beautiful

• The Hulk has an awesome superpower. He turns into this giant monster that can eliminate several dudes at once.

  

  Ty Simpkins
  • Awesome
  • Monster

• Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.

  

  Katharine Isabelle
  • Girl
  • Monster

• 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 and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Thinking

• You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

  

  Matthew Broderick
  • Mind
  • Green
  • Monster

• War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Men
  • War
  • Devil

• The great thing about writing 'Deadpool' is that he can demolish expectations and typical comic book conventions with monster truck force. There are few other characters who can transition so easily from one type of story to the next.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Book

• ... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Up
  • Trying
  • May

• When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.

  

  Bong Joon-ho
  • People
  • May
  • Movie

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