Creatures Quotes

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Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. — Ambrose Bierce
...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an… — Vladimir Nabokov
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to… — George Orwell
There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands... — Simon R. Green
Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman… — Betty Smith
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that… — Neal Stephenson
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. — Ambrose Bierce
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your… — Philip K. Dick
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater… — H.G. Wells
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I… — Stephen Crane
All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows… — Kiran Desai
Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all… — Charles Bukowski
What strange creatures brothers are! — Jane Austen
To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a… — Yann Martel
To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for… — John Updike
Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be… — Mark Twain
How strange to have failed as a social creatureâ€”even criminals do not fail that wayâ€”they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mamma," whispered Rannoch as he nestled by her side, "what is man?" Bracken looked into her calf's eyes. "Man? Man is something you must always… — David Clement-Davies
He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder --for them it was enough to exist and go their way. — Pope John Paul II

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