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Quotes About Monsters

Even if it all fails, it was worth the time," Saul Laski said softly. "The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victims remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces—and voices.
~ Dan Simmons
I had forgotten that monsters do not die. They must be killed.
~ Dan Simmons
...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.
~ Guillermo del Toro
An ocean without monsters would be like sleep without dreams.
~ Werner Herzog
hayal ürünü yarat?klardan deÄŸil, ancak insanlardan korkulmas? gerektiÄŸini söyler.
~ William Golding
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there's nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.
~ China Mieville
Taking on someone else's monsters will kill you." He
~ Chris Crutcher
Female monsters take things as personally as they really are. They study facts. Even if rejection makes them feel like the girl who's not invited to the party, they have to understand the reasons why. ... Every question, once it's formulated, is a paradigm, contains its own internal truth. We have to stop diverting ourselves with false questions. And I told Warren: I aim to be a female monster too.
~ Chris Kraus
Adam Welz noted in his Guardian blog NatureUp that much of Yukon Men is grossly misleading.15 He could find no evidence to support the claim that there have been twenty fatal wolf attacks in Alaska in the past ten years. He is also baffled why Discovery would produce and broadcast a "factual" show that portrays wolves as "man-eating monsters straight out of Victorian fairytales, a serious threat to life and limb,
~ Chris Palmer
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.
~ Christopher Bram
Ignorance is the womb of monsters
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
They wanted us to change," said Tetsuo. "They came to our planet and they wouldn't shut up about fluid overlays and unhierarchical forms of social organization. We felt like we had to listen to them, because they were so powerful. But secretly we thought of them as monsters from space. And now here we are at your planet, and we are the monsters from space." "Why'd you come here? Why even bother?" "Don't you want to be a monster from space, too?
~ Leonard Richardson
But the thing about monsters was, you couldn't talk to them about it, because they wouldn't admit they were monsters in the first place.
~ Lev Grossman
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
Maybe he's got a plan for proving that he was a victim of unethical research practices. Who knows? I can't begin to guess his objectives but I can promise you that there is nothing you or I or modern para-pharmaceuticals can do for him. We can't fix the monsters.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
The gods of this land are monsters.
~ Jean Giono
That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
~ Unknown
Men, despite all their ethics, would never be anything more than monsters if nature had not given them pity to bolster their reason.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run. "All you have to do, Mountain Goat, is show old Demon that you're not afraid.
~ Jeannette Walls
That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love the freighter people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
~ Jeannette Walls
That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
~ Jeannette Walls
I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.
~ Brendan Fraser
One name always stands out when it comes to actors taking on the monsters of our nightmares - Robert Englund. In the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' series, Englund kept us awake as night with a striped shirt and his special glove.
~ Rob Manuel