Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Ebert

All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.

Margaret Atwood

Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

China Mieville

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

Bill Nighy

I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they'd arrest you for crimes against acting.

Truman Capote

I can see every monster as they come in.

Umberto Eco

Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.

Sarah Vowell

Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

Vladimir Nabokov

I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais!

William P. Young

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

Mahatma Gandhi

Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.

Marquis de Sade

We monsters are necessary to nature also.

Philip Massinger

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

Ned Colletti

He has not informed the Giants of that decision.

Wilkie Collins

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

James Hansen

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.

James Fallows

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

Cervantes Saavedra

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Murray Rothbard

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

Mark Buchanan

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

Ellen Hopkins

Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.

Woody Johnson

It is our intention to be partners with the Giants in perpetuity.