Monstrum Quotes

#1. The word 'monster' [monstrum] derives from 'demonstrare,' meaning to show or to demonstrate. Heresy and evolutionary change are thus mere intrusions into a homogenous perception of reality. My vocation, I decided, would be to make my life an example.

But of what?

Steve Abbott

#2. The anthropological criminologists tell us that the typical criminal is ugly: monstrum in fronte, monstrum in animo [monstrous in appearance, monstrous in spirit].

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. Grumbling incoherently, I fished in my jacket pocket for sunglasses. "Fear not, night dweller," Niko said with mocking gravity. "It is merely the sun, something you would see more often if you would roll out of bed before late afternoon.

Rob Thurman

#4. I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

J.K. Rowling

#5. It's not as if there's an empty patch that one can see and so one can say, 'There's my ignorance; it's about ten by ten and a dozen feet high and someday someone will fill in the empty patch.

Andrea Dworkin

#6. Desperation translates into every language.

Nicola Yoon

#7. The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.

Vita Sackville-West

#8. A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

Ivan Panin

#9. If you have a bad feeling about someone, don't worry about offending them. Just run. Being polite is how you get your purse stolen or your purse stolen.

Lena Dunham

#10. We must lead all beings to the shore of awakening, but, after these beings have become liberated, we do not, in truth, think that a single being has been liberated.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#11. There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain of nuclear ashes will fall alike on the just and the unjust. And then it will be too late to wish that we had done the real work of this atomic age, which is to seek a world that is neither red nor dead.

Edward Kennedy

#12. Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

Larry Wall

#13. When a goal is badly stated or it does not exist at all, our sub- conscious will automatically conceive it as unreachable, as impossible as to find a solution for something that does not exist

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Things are different now." " things are better now," I replied. " Aren't they?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#15. If I dream by myself, it's merely a dream. But if we all dream together, that's the start of a new future.

Lee Soo Man