Creatures Quotes
2516 quotes by 1578 authors
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Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles…
— Beverly Cleary
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We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought…
— Arundhati Roy
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As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and…
— R A Salvatore
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What's that?" he asked, when I stood beside him again. "Halos," I said with a grin. "For heavenly creatures like us." "That might be a…
— Richelle Mead
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A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have…
— Rachilde
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What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first…
— Stephen King
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What do you want to do with me?" she asked. You had an unpleasant tumble." He nodded toward the unfamiliar creatures. "My Ganmede friends and…
— Frank Beddor
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I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror…
— C.S. Lewis
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His eyes softened. I thought maybe he pitied me, but it was something else. "Ultimately, it will be your burden to bear. It's always the…
— Kami Garcia
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If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.
— Charles Dickens
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I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we…
— Alexandra Fuller
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We want everything. All the happiness that earth and heaven are capable of bestowing. Creature comforts, and heart and soul comforts also; and, proud-spirited beings…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Me, Polly Garter, under the washing line, giving the breast in the garden to my bonny new baby. Nothing grows in our garden, only washing.…
— Dylan Thomas
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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
— James Joyce
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