Creature Quotes

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Whatâ€™s your name, lad?â€ â€œNewton. Newton Pulsifer.â€ â€œLUCIFER? Whatâ€™s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the… — Neil Gaiman
Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like...… — Suzanne Collins
You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the… — Jane Austen
I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests. — Voltaire
I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died… — M.F.K. Fisher
I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities. — Charlotte Bronte
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? — Wilkie Collins
When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated… — Terry Pratchett
You are the noblest, purest creature I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you," he whispered. — Stephenie Meyer
Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world." "Who told you this?"… — Libba Bray
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could… — Leo Tolstoy
You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your… — Ray Bradbury
I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull… — Jane Austen
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires… — Soren Kierkegaard
The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents â€” because they have… — Frank Zappa
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in… — Ian Mcewan
Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's… — Wendell Berry
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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