Top 100 The Monster Quotes
#1. The monster towered ten or twelve feet tall. Its bright green leathery skin was covered in dirt,
moss, leaves, and patches of grass, the stench repulsive. His teeth gleamed brown. Evidently he
wasn't aware of the multitude of whitening products on the market.
A&E Kirk
#2. There was always one. Every village seemed to have one young woman who believed her beauty could somehow magically protect her from a monster. Somehow, they would be special enough to tame the Beast.
They were always wrong.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#3. Most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc.
Richard Dawkins
#4. Mathematics, as far as he was concerned, was a Sphinx charged with deceitful puzzles whose cold malicious gaze transfixed her victims, and he gave the monster a wide berth.
Hermann Hesse
#5. Being true to yourself is always the right thing to do."
"Is it? Even if you're a monster?
Heather R. Blair
#6. I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
George A. Romero
#7. Because you're the monster, not me." I say. "I may have scales and claws and the ability to tear you limb from limb without breaking a sweat, but a monster exists in the mind. A monster is a creature of hate, not form.
Sarah Nicolas
#8. My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a change! Two galumphing cartoon characters making a shattering realisation about their world and their role in sustaining it. A truly epic moment. It's stunning.
Russell T. Davies
#10. In another place was a vast array of idols - Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy.
H.G.Wells
#11. When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
Shia Labeouf
#12. O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils
Joseph Alleine
#13. This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.
John Steinbeck
#14. Chomsky is a pencil-and-paper theoretician who wouldn't know Jabba the Hutt from the Cookie Monster,
Steven Pinker
#15. Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
Patrick Ness
#16. I seem to be the most wordy when it comes to monsters because I'm a bit of a monster freak.
Silvia Colloca
#17. She raised her head finally. He looked the same, but then, he always did. She'd seem him kill twice, and he betrayed no reaction at all. He was a monster, not even human.
But he was her monster ...
Anne Stuart
#19. The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
Mary Shelley
#20. This used to be a mean monster until he got sick one winter with the flu & stayed in bed & watched too much Little House on the Prairie & now the littlest thing & he starts to cry.
Brian Andreas
#21. What makes my jaw drop is that people today should base their lives on such an appalling role model as Yahweh - and, even worse, that they should bossily try to force the same evil monster (whether fact or fiction) on the rest of us.
Richard Dawkins
#22. Inside my soul a treasure is buried.
The key is mine and only mine.
How right you are, you drunken monster!
I know: the truth is in the wine.
("The Unknown Lady")
Alexander Blok
#23. 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
#24. I have learned it's best to face down the trouble. Otherwise it will grow into a monster. We don't have time for monsters.
Mark Andrew Poe
#25. I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster."
End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom.
Rick Riordan
#26. Meet my cat, Felipe. I should probably mention, he doesn't like strangers. * Understatement of the year. The gigantic, furry, striped monster with saber teeth and red glowing eyes was her cat? "Holy fuck, woman. He's the size of a bloody car.
Eve Langlais
#27. In a movie that's sort of a single monster movie, like 'Jaws,' once you see the animal, it identifies the threat, and you're able to start working on ways to take down the threat.
Colin Trevorrow
#28. I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.
Shirley Jackson
#29. No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.
Sylvie Guillem
#30. The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.
Henry David Thoreau
#31. But then, maybe "I don't believe in you" is the cruelest way to kill a monster.
Helen Oyeyemi
#32. I make art for the sake of art . . . and for my own selfish gratification, because I'm an artistic monster.
Lindsey Stirling
#33. You insist you're a monster because you're afraid of being human.
Jessica Khoury
#34. All the horror and blood and monsters and fear crystallized to a fine thin shard inside her, harder than diamonds. What was one more monster in the face of so many?
Christina Henry
#35. Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.
Margaret Atwood
#36. There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
Noam Chomsky
#37. She looked around. "Oh, I've just got to hug somebody! You!" And she hugged Puck, the little ghost horse. "And you." She hugged Pook, and Peek, and even the nose of the moat monster. "But not you," she decided, encountering the zombie.
Piers Anthony
#38. There were no sparks, just a gasoline fire burning through the dark
Sukh Dev
#39. This guy is a monster, Mike." "Yeah he is, but he looks like anyone. He can fit in, and he knows how to talk to people. He's not the standard profile of the shy boy killer. He's not afraid to talk to women." "So he's not Norman Bates," Julia said.
Tobias Kloner
#40. The monsters were never
under my bed.
Because the monsters
were inside my head.
I fear no monsters,
for no monsters I see.
Because all this time
the monster has been me.
Nikita Gill
#41. We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Richard Dawkins
#42. A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?
Wes Craven
#43. I am not certain I liked you referring to my brother as a monster." There was a trace of humor in Mikhail's voice.
"You should hear what I call you behind your back," Gregori said, even as his arms spread to accommodate the wings forming.
Christine Feehan
#44. It's not a good feeling
knowing that you profoundly deserve the title of monster. It's better to be kind than to feel guilty.
Stephenie Meyer
#45. France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.
Thomas Jefferson
#46. It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#47. You're a monster.
Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?
No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
Orson Scott Card
#48. Is he really so much like the monster James tracked across Siberia?"
Her eyes popped wide open, and then began flickering wildly from Edward to Seth to me, around and around.
"Not the same?" she snarled in her little girl's soprano. "Impossible!
Stephenie Meyer
#49. We're all monsters," he says. "Everyone of us. No matter what you want to believe, believe this. We will all fight. We will all kill. Every person you've ever met, the monster lives inside them all.
M. Arthur
#50. As a self-described Guadalupe girl, Lupe was sensitive to Guadalupe being overshadowed by the "Mary Monster." Lupe not only meant that Mary was the most dominant of the Catholic Church's "stable" of virgins; Lupe believed that the Virgin Mary was also "a domineering virgin.
John Irving
#51. I love Vanguard. Sony was great too, but it was a different animal, it was so big. It's hard to get the big monster to move, unless you're right there on top of things. And you can't always be on top.
Shawn Mullins
#52. To be your companion."
"Companion?" He said the word as if he were spitting a bad taste from his mouth. "I am a killer. A monster! Can you not see that?
Jettie Necole
#53. The Philosopher said that a man alone is either a god or a monster. I'm no god.
Brent Weeks
#54. I have had as many names as there are years to time itself! roared the monster. I am Herne the Hunter! I am Cernunnos! I am the eternal Green Man!
Patrick Ness
#55. Of course
the New Testament is very small.
Its mouth opens four times
as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster,
yet somehow man-made ...
Anne Sexton
#56. You know that is not true, the monster said. You know that your truth, the one that you hide, Conor O'Malley, is the thing you are most afraid of.
Patrick Ness
#57. What I want is a way to put Universal monster toys back in the aisles alongside 'Star Wars' and all the other stuff and introduce today's kids to the classic monsters.
Harry Knowles
#58. The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.
Antony Beevor
#59. I fell in love with a monster who had a heart, even though darkness surrounded him. And while I wouldn't wish for anyone to endure the same circumstances or past we did, I was so grateful for becoming the monster's ultimate obsession.
V.F. Mason
#60. I stood staring at myself in the mirror trying to reconcile dual images. I was hunting the monster that had killed my sister. I was the monster that had killed his brother.
Karen Marie Moning
#61. That, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster ... for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
J. Lincoln Fenn
#62. It"s easier to believe there's a monster under the bed if you've spent the last six months arguing with a monster.
Chuck Klosterman
#63. I'm still pulled over ... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.
Lee Daniels
#64. 'Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter.
Josie Bissett
#65. I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.
Ron Paul
#66. Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
Ellen Hopkins
#67. Even if surviving wasn't simple, or easy, or fair.
Even if he could never be human.
He wanted the chance to matter.
He wanted to live.
Victoria Schwab
#68. The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.
Rick Yancey
#69. The girl who lives in 8G used to be a lovely charming girl, but the girl is a monster bitch monster. The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
#70. There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.
Franz Wright
#71. The man 'Jericho' wondered if the thing would get to the smoke it wanted. If it was as hungry as he was. Wondered if the monster would be willing to share.
Rosca Marx
#72. You're as old as the land and you've never heard of sarcasm? Conor asked.
Oh, I have heard of it, the monster said, putting its huge branch hands on its hips. But people usually know better than to speak it to me.
Patrick Ness
#73. I guarantee you I'm not going to forget your voice. We're going to run into each other down the road sometime, and when we do I'm going to pop you apart one rivet at a time."
"There's the monster. Hello, monster.
Richard Kadrey
#74. Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.
Holly Black
#75. Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was 'Godzilla' - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it's a classic in Japan.
Matt Reeves
#76. Every time I looked at the sky and at my watch, that monster was still up there.
Julie Hecht
#77. You're better off not knowing the truth. You're just as much of a monster as I am.
Millicent Nankivell
#78. And that, the monster said, is not the truth at all. Conor
Patrick Ness
#79. The things we do to eat! Running from scorpions the size of small dogs, dodging 10 foot long rattlesnakes and squashing monster spiders - all in a days work
Gail Saunders-Smith
#80. The past has shaped me, molded me into a monster. A monster with a persecuted heart and a dead soul.
J.A. Redmerski
#81. When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he's a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#82. The capital is become an overgrown monster; which like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.
Tobias Smollett
#83. But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's. Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?
Patrick Ness
#84. If I'm a monster, then you must be the creator of them all. You're my Dr. Frankenstein.
Karina Halle
#85. Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
George Eliot
#86. He was lost, captured by an innocent, destroyed by a would-be nun, and there was no way the monster, Simon of Navarre, Richard the Fair's Grendel, would ever be the same.
Anne Stuart
#87. To get what I wanted I became the monster I've always hated...
Megan Mitcham
#88. None of us is a monster, Chiku. We're all just trying to make the best of our singular natures.
Alastair Reynolds
#89. If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
Aldous Huxley
#90. It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
Voltaire
#91. I'm fine with being alone," he insists. "I like the company I keep. Most people need constant distractions, because if they slow down long enough to evaluate their lives, it makes them internally combust. Like if you folded them inside out, you'd find a huge monster inside. A train wreck.
Katie Kacvinsky
#92. Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.
Richard Preston
#93. She didn't know why being near him made the beast inside her go away, and she didn't care. She was Minka in his arms and a monster out of them. That was all that mattered to her.
Paige Tyler
#94. Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
Patrick MacGill
#95. She had shrieked and shrieked for her mother, but her mother was already there. Her mother was the monster.
Holly Black
#96. Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
Kate Moss
#97. Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.
Frank E. Peretti
#98. The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster.
-Merry
Laurell K. Hamilton
#99. Maybe, to do what you and I do, we have to have a little bit of the monster in us.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#100. People actually were worried that I was going to get stereotyped as a monster after Freddy, but my God, I got stereotyped as white trash for years, the best friend for years, the redneck for years, the nerd for years and let me tell you ... it's better to be a monster than to be a nerd.
Robert Englund
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