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Monster Quotes

I beheld the wretch – the miserable monster whom I had created.

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 5. Victor begins to realize the dangers of taking science too far and playing God with life and death, when he sees the kind of monster he has created.

Monsters come in many forms. You know the greatest monster of them all? Guilt.

– Dr. Leonard McCoy

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Obsession’.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

– Honore de Balzac

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster – Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

– Hunter S. Thompson

Godzilla’s a monster for the ’90s. He’s been working out.

– Hank Azaria

I think I may have created a monster with my – I won’t say act – but with my redneck pose.

– Billy Carter

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

– Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that’s not my style as a director.

– Bong Joon-ho

I bought these pink sticker things… and I would write things on them, and I wrote, ‘I will write an international smash,’ and shortly after, it was when we did ‘Monster,’ and it was an international smash.

– Bebe Rexha

In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.

– Bette Davis

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

– Andres Segovia

It is conventional to call ‘monster’ any blending of dissonant elements. I call ‘monster’ every original inexhaustible beauty.

– Alfred Jarry

The ego is a fascinating monster.

– Alanis Morissette

I’m glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

– Ben Hogan

We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that’s inside all of us.

– Bill Condon

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

– A. N. Wilson

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

– Bryant H. McGill

I’ve got a Range Rover and a little Mercedes. I normally drive my Range Rover because I feel like a monster in it. Nobody messes with me.

– Emma Bunton

Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn’t just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.

– Max Brooks

Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn’t scare me, but if it’s a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.

– Claire Coffee

My right hand is a monster.

– Deontay Wilder

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of ’30s Universal monster movies.

– Mojo Nixon

‘Robopocalypse’ joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein’s monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature who has crashed the streets of Tokyo. And then, of course, there’s the Terminator.

– Daniel H. Wilson

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally.

– Matt Reeves

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

– Emile M. Cioran

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

– Gilbert K. Chesterton

I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.

– Elizabeth Meriwether

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, ‘the press.’

– Marianne Faithfull

I’m just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There’s no reason to dress my monster up.

– Glenn Frey

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

– George A. Romero

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