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Quotes About Monsters

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.
~ Steven Moffat
Perhaps she had always been a monster, but even the lady monsters of the world couldn't escape the expectations that came of being women.
~ Sherry Thomas
Somos un compendio de contradicciones, de afectos, de amigos, de malentendidos: somos monstruos. [...] Somos también lo que hacen de nosotros las personas. No queremos a las personas por lo que son, sino por lo que nos obligan a ser.
~ Silvina Ocampo
Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the source of her wonders.
~ Simon Blackburn
I ignored him, concentrating on Lilith. "According to the stories, after you were expelled from Eden you went down into Hell, where you coupled with demons and gave birth to all the monsters that have plagued the world." "I was young," said Lilith. "You know how it is. We all do things we later regret, when we're being rebellious teenagers.
~ Simon R. Green
There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren't.
~ Simon Rich
I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.
~ Stephen Sommers
King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.
~ Mason Cooley
Max dijo QUIETOS y los amansó con el truco mágico de mirar fijamente a los ojos amarillos de todos ellos sin pestañear una sola vez y se asustaron y dijeron que era el más monstruo de todos.
~ Maurice Sendak
Se acabó! dijo Max, y envió a los monstruos a la cama sin cenar. Y Max, el rey de todos los monstruos se sintió solo y quería estar donde alguien lo quisiera más que a nadie. Entonces desde el otro lado del mundo lo envolvió un olor de comida rica y ya no quiso ser el rey del lugar donde viven los monstruos.
~ Maurice Sendak
Los monstruos que salían de sus tumbas no son nada comparados con los que llevamos dentro del corazón.
~ Max Brooks
Facts are supposed to banish monsters… She sighs. …not invite them in.
~ Max Brooks
I'm open to any discovery, as long as it's based on hard, physical evidence. Facts are supposed to banish monsters… She sighs. …not invite them i
~ Max Brooks
Zombie flesh isn't so bad.
~ Max Brooks
People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters and doing things we would not have thought possible among the people of our own day, apart from a few pathological exceptions. If they are not immune, Why should I be so confident of my own immunity?
~ Max Frisch
And now we who are writing women and strange monsters Still search our hearts to find the difficult answers, Still hope that we may learn to lay our hands More gently and more subtly on the burning sands.
~ May Sarton
All wars make men monsters, all wars and all men." "And women?" he asked. "Women, too," Attolia confirmed.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your heart, and find it unlovely. You will be certain that (...) you are the greatest of monsters. This is a good thing; although you may forgive yourself, you must never come to think that your actions were in any way justifiable. But- (...) Being a sane, honorable human being is not always comfortable.
~ Mercedes Lackey
With what characters she had filled this lost stage of emptiness! It was here that she would see the people of her imagination, the fierce figures of her making, as they strolled from corner to corner, brooded like monsters or flew through the air like seraphs with burning wings, or danced, or fought, or laughed, or cried. This was her attic of make-believe, where she would watch her mind's companions advancing or retreating across the dusty floor.
~ Mervyn Peake
Links against chains. Links of solidarity versus chains of servitude. The brotherhood of the shaken against the unholy alliance of cold-blooded monsters and frauds.
~ Bernard-Henri Levy
Not only did the angry villagers hound their monsters to the edge of town, they reproached her for being vulnerable to the torches.
~ Susan Stryker
If I had the pen of Moliere, I could make him comic. That is the role of art, is it not? To make monsters comic, so we can bear them, and our own cheap griefs into grand tragedy, so that others will weep with us.
~ Judith Merkle Riley
Snoring keeps the monsters away.
~ Judy Blume
I killed the monsters. That's what fathers do.
~ F. K. Wallace