#monster

Men may sail the seas for a lifetime and seldom, if ever, come in contact with the nightmare monsters that inhabit the caves and cliffs of the ocean floor. Gazing down at the slightly muddy water, the men of The Unicorn saw a squirming mass of interwoven tentacles resembling enormous snakes, immensely thick and long and tapering at their free ends to the size of a man's thumb. It was a foul sight, an obscene growth from the dark places of the world, where incessant hunger is the driving force. At one place, down near the bulge of the hull, appeared a staring gorgon face with great lidless eyes and a huge parrot beak that moved slightly, opening and shutting as though it had just crunched and swallowed a meal of warm flesh. ("Fire In The Galley Stove") ↗

— William Outerson

#giant-squid #kraken #octopus #sea-monsters #squid

This is kaiju!" Yojiro barked. "When did they ever give a damn about adhering to science! ↗

— Hiroshi Yamamoto

#japan #kaiju #monster #science #science

It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character." "I don't even know what that is!" "Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction. ↗

— Girl vs Monster

#disney-quotes #girl-vs-monster #halloween #science-fiction #scifi

Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse. Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hubris #hummus #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #rick-riordan

This is the Manifesto of Little Monster There is something heroic about the way my fans operate their cameras. So precisely, so intricately and so proudly. Like Kings writing the history of their people, is their prolific nature that both creates and procures what will later be percieved as the kingdom. So the real truth about Lady Gaga fans, my little monsters, lies in this sentiment: They are the Kings. They are the Queens. They write the hisory of the kingdom and I am something of a devoted Jester. It is in the theory of perception that we have established our bond, or the lie I should say, for which we kill. We are nothing without our image. Without our projection. Without the spiritual hologram of who we percieve ourselves to be or rather to become, in the future. When you are lonely, I will be lonely too. And this is the fame. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#lady-gaga #little-monsters #manifesto #monster #nature

I come from a long line of body snatchers, probably the top-notch body snatchers in America. No make that the world. Some people might think it's gross digging up bones or corpses, but who asked them? It's no big deal, but then I've been doing it since I got out of diapers. ↗

— Minda Webber

#frankenstein #ghouls #grave-robbers #monsters #vampires

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#bore #care #fights #hundred #lest

I suppose we all hit a point when no one has to describe fear & confusion for us anymore, a point when life carves it into us. ↗

— Josh James Riebock

#life

At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us. ↗

— Alistair Begg

#dust #god #monster #sinners #theology

We villians are a very select group indeed. In the very desperation of our hate rests our strength. ↗

— Cyclops

#greek-anti-heros #greek-heroes #greek-mythology #monsters #mythology