A Monster Calls Grandma Quotes

#1. Either harming other people is wrong, in which case God is unnecessary, or harming other people is acceptable, in which case God's admonitions are misguided.

Greg Graffin

#2. No astrophysicist would deny the possibility of life. I think we're not creative enough to imagine what life would be like on another planet. Show me a dead alien. Better yet, show me a live one!

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.

Douglas MacArthur

#4. Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than, for example, Saul Bellow. The setting of a novel for me is just a part of the technique. I choose it at the end.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#5. I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

Steven Soderbergh

#6. You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ...

Thomas Carlyle

#7. Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

John Cleveland

#8. The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.

Raymond Loewy

#9. Hobbits, just another Tolkien Minority

Mental Floss

#10. Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all the land.

Chief Seattle

#11. Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.

Pete Edochie

#12. I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often.

Christina Aguilera

#13. It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.

David Halberstam

#14. We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

Ann Richards