Sea Monster Quotes

#1. Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.

Robin McKinley

#2. don't. I don't know about you, but if I'm gonna be chained to a rock by the gods, I'd rather go out as the person who brought fire back from the mountain than as a pure princess who didn't have the sense to say to everyone, "Oh, hell no, you are not sacrificing me to some sea monster!

Libba Bray

#3. Wow! said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being thrown into a storm-tossed, fathoms-deep lake, and pushed out of it again by a giant sea monster.

J.K. Rowling

#4. But before that day it felt like at least I had an ally on this boat. Now I have nothing. Well, I have a fat baby sea monster. But Bao doesn't tell jokes, and somehow I need that.

I hate how I need that.

Emily Skrutskie

#5. He should have known it was all wrong the moment they started hanging grand pianos over the sea-monster pool in the atrium.

Douglas Adams

#6. One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.

Jo Brand

#7. The hall's door was framed by a pair of vast curved bones that had come from some sea monster.

Bernard Cornwell

#8. I remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something.

Rick Riordan

#9. Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

Oscar Wilde

#10. Taking "Christ" out of "Christmas" just reads "Mas" which is Spanish for "More." Seems Americans just want "mas," "mas," "mas." But when is more ever enough without Christ in it? More Christ?

Kilburn Hall

#11. Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?

Pablo Neruda

#12. My mom played 12-string and sang, and my dad could play pretty much any wind instrument and had a great ear for harmony. Soon enough, my sister and I got into music because we were always around it, and people were always listening to it.

Nathaniel Rateliff

#13. The main thing I sense is...darkness." As soon as the words were out I realized how awful they sounded, so I rushed to clarify, "But it's not a bad darkness. It's more like a warm-summer-night kind of darkenss, not the monster-under-the-bed kind of darkness.

Kristen Day

#14. Thus, with no one to advise her - for she could advise with no one without seeming to complain against him - gentle Florence tossed on an uneasy sea of doubt and hope; and Mr. Carker, like a scaly monster of the deep, swam down below, and kept his shining eye upon her.

Charles Dickens

#15. We live, if we still do live, in a Sea of Chaos, out of which any fucking monster can evolve.

Stephen Jones

#16. He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

George Orwell

#17. She is my "Soul Dog" and I totally get it now.

Christy Bright

#18. Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

Lev Grossman

#19. I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.' He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. 'I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here.

George R R Martin

#20. There can be nothing more frightening in a gigantic monster of many tentacles than intelligence.

A.E. Marling

#21. A lie doesn't become dangerous only with exposure; it is toxic, however well buried.

Decca Aitkenhead

#22. If you are wise,
You will mingle one thing with the other-
Not hoping without doubt;
Not doubting without hope.

Seneca The Younger

#23. The waves rose in growing fury, each over-topping its fellow, till in a very few minutes the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and devouring monster.

Bram Stoker

#24. For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty.

Sandra Bernhard

#25. The toughest habits to break are the ones we take with us from childhood.

Charles F. Glassman

#26. With 'Interpreter,' I didn't know it was ever going to be a book, that they were going to be published. I was writing them in a vacuum for the most part. They were my apprentice work. Then the stories happened to become a book.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#27. Brianna?" he said, frowning at the pictures. "What an awful name for a wee lassie!

Diana Gabaldon

#28. I think people don't understand that comedy is an outlet for me. Comedy allows me to get outside of myself, and exercise this thing that is still kind of scary to me.

Will Ferrell

#29. What is gayer than believing in a household god?

Franz Kafka

#30. Insight roams the sea of the unconscious like the Loch Ness monster, a rumor whose wake occasionally becomes visible, but even then it's mystifying and scarcely believed.

Diane Ackerman

#31. What kind of word is 'methodal'?" David asked. "A buzzword," Ashok answered, this time himself. "Methodal. Sounds like a drug." "That's what buzzwords are. Tranquilizers." "Thought suppressants, you mean.

Carolyn Ives Gilman