Creature Quotes

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It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you… — C.S. Lewis
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open… — Philip K. Dick
As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At… — Martha C. Nussbaum
She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more… — Christopher Moore
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even… — Jane Austen
It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror. — C.S. Lewis
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,… — Wendell Berry
What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means… — Albert Einstein
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly… — Adam Smith
Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle.… — Ambrose Bierce
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants… — Dalai Lama
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind… — C.S. Lewis
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then… — Peter De Vries
I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light,… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a… — Pearl S. Buck
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being… — Marcel Proust
She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of… — Gloria Naylor
The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the… — Erich Fromm

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