Quotes with monster

  • It is conventional to call ''monster'' any blending of dissonant elements. I call ''monster'' every original inexhaustible beauty.
  • In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bill Buford Gordon Ramsay, the only chef in London honored with three stars by the 'Guide Michelin,' is not a monster.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Adrian Lyne I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bette Davis In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Alfred Jarry It is conventional to call ''monster'' any blending of dissonant elements. I call ''monster'' every original inexhaustible beauty.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • William S. Burroughs Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • John Irving Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.
    In One Person (2012) 260
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Vivien Kellems Our tax law is a 1, 598-page hydra-headed monster and I'm going to attack and attack and attack until I have ironed out every fault in it.
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  • William Shakespeare That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat.
    Hamlet 3, 4
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • E. M. Cioran 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.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Wes Craven The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
    Wes Craven
    American filmmaker, actor, and novelist (1939 - 2015)
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  • Ezra Pound The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Sarah Bernhardt The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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  • Barry McGuire There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • John Steinbeck 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
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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