Monolith Quotes

#1. It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in your own technique to understand that when these seemingly informed opinions are contradicting each other, it becomes this paralyzing monolith.

Richard Greenberg

#2. You hide a Sun-powered device in darkness - only if you want to know when it is brought out into the light. In other words, the monolith may be some kind of alarm. And we have triggered it.

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. While the West tries to turn its civilization into cultural variety hour, Islam tries to turn Muslim lands into a cultural monolith. The same West that justifies the rap culture thinks that every Muslim terrorist bombing is an expression of economic angst or social alienation.

Ben Shapiro

#4. The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

Barbara Tuchman

#5. Vast, Polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measured sounds. I think I went mad then.

H.P. Lovecraft

#6. If you are rigorous in your own R&D in whatever your area is, you do your own testing, and you really stress-test the thing that you do, I think that gives you a tremendous amount of inner fortitude when you come up against the monolith.

Brian Koppelman

#7. I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.

Suzanne Finnamore

#8. So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.

Kitty Ferguson

#9. Science, Government, Education, Art, the cultural monolith may be said to exist primarily to exercise a paternal influence, decorously if possible, aggressively if necessary, to enforce certain accepted images upon individuals.

Eleanor Antin

#10. The epithet "monolithic" is often used as a term of praise in this country; but a monolith is a mass of stone. Human beings are far more complex.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#11. The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

Randy Falco

#12. The crew of Apollo 8, who at Christmas, 1968, became the first men ever to set eyes upon the Lunar Farside, told me that they had been tempted to radio back the discovery of a large black monolith: alas, discretion prevailed.

Arthur C. Clarke

#13. I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us.

Jon Stewart

#14. Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.

Jim Webb

#15. The relativists' stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its most obscurantist factions as spokespeople for the whole.

Alan Sokal

#16. Memories were movable, he was discovering. They weren't etched in stone like some monolith testimony to the eons, as he'd once imagined.

R. Brady Frost

#17. I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

Nina Easton

#18. When I was looking at the Russian Constructivists, these agitprop artists actually painted on trains. It was a heavy influence. They were bringing art to the people, to the masses, and breaking it out of the clubbiness of the art world, which is a monolith.

Jeffrey Deitch

#19. Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our precise surgical target was the Judeo-Christian power monolith, which has imposed a guilty, inhibited, grim, anti-body, anti-life repression on Western civilization.

Timothy Leary

#20. Standing in The Hall of Fame
And the world's going to know your name
Yeah
-The Hall of Fame

The Script

#21. During our meetings in Peshawar, Abdul Haq...asked me why the United States does not pay attention to terrorism. He compared America to a huge elephant: "One hundred people push on it and it doesn't blink, but when it decides to move, it lumbers forward and crushes everything.

Peter Tomsen

#22. Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

Bill Kristol

#23. He paused for a minute and I could feel him trembling. "I love you," he whispered against my skin and then his teeth, broke through.

Kristen Middleton

#24. If I could
choose, a place to die,
it would never have been in your arms, old darling

Sharon Olds

#25. A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

Wilson Mizner

#26. Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

Walter Raleigh