Creature Quotes

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You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools for our convenience tens of thousands of… — Steven Pinker
There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to… — Brendan Myers
The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect… — Jean Patou
A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark. It… — Alice Oswald
A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference. — Jean Hanff Korelitz
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying… — Jakob Bohme
I have always been a fan of Jim Henson, and I love his Creature Shop creations, the skill of the puppets and the characters he… — Honeysuckle Weeks
Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let me assure you, it is much better… — Margaret Beckett
My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on… — Russell Smith
Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature. — Paul Bloom
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the… — Seamus Heaney
How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of… — Bertha von Suttner
If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear -… — Michael Leunig
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. — Michael Leunig
What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful… — Michael Leunig
Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to… — Joanna Lumley
If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty.… — Said Nursi
Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite. — Samuel Freeman Miller
In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone… — Luise Rainer
Everything comes back to the horse, which is why I love it. You put your ego aside, and you concentrate on getting the best performance… — Eddie Campbell

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