Quotes of: Monster Keyword

I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

Ang Lee

Jack the Ripper – media myth arising when clever individual murderers concocted a monster so as to avoid suspicion.

Anthony North

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

Walid Jumblatt

The doctor will tell you that all fiction is harmful, that the pleasure we find in good dreams is more than offset by the terror when those dreams go bad. I say even the bad dreams are good for us. There's something alluring about monsters, about thi...

Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams

In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the love with which so many stories end – the love of fidelity, kindness and fertility – but the other side of love, its cruelty, ster...

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

Monsters’ can help us by giving a tangible form to our secret fears. It is less widely appreciated today that ‘wonders’ such as the unicorn legitimize our hopes. But all imaginary animals, to some degree all animals, are ultimately both monster...

Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human

...I'm momentarily transfixed, torn between curiosity and fear. I can pull it up the gently sloping mud bank, but then what? Already thought is lagging behind events, as the blotchy brown mass slides up wet mud toward me, its amorphous margins flowin...

River Monsters: True Stories of the Ones that Didn't Get Away

If you turn into a hideous monster and I am sent to slay you, I will remember this and make it as painless as I can, out of respect for you.

Changes

With nature on your side, you don’t need numbers, you don’t need financing and you certainly don’t need to make friends with people you should be fighting against.

Creating Monsters

CONFESSION NO. 1 Most women find the bloating, cramping, and bitchiness of PMS bothersome at worst. I turn into a monster a week before my period…literally.

Confessions of a Werewolf Supermodel

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Having hope was like dangling himself over a chasm and putting the rope in her hands. She could annihilate him if she wanted to.

Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Liraz snorted, caught off guard, and the tension between them ebbed away. "I'm sorry of my almost dying interrupted your almost kissing.

Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

East of Eden

Once I knew what I was doing I was there and with it; I had the total knowing. I Googled God and orgasmed At the amount of Gods and Monsters out there posted about.

Err and Grr

most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc.

The God Delusion

It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.

Graceling

Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

I cannot be assured of exactly what I created be it madness and monster or beauty and light.

Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

They’re waiting for you. Go on in.” Adrian leaned close to Keith’s ear and spoke in an ominous voice. “If.You.Dare.” He poked Keith’s shoulder and gave a "Muhahaha” kind of monster laugh.

Bloodlines