Creatures Quotes
2516 quotes by 1578 authors
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There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon…
— Susanna Clarke
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The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers,…
— Gaston Leroux
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A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.
— Lisa Kleypas
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I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.
— Stephenie Meyer
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We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
— Richard Bach
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And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is…
— Sophie Scholl
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A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around…
— Loren Eiseley
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
— Moliere
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[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing…
— Obert Skye
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VIDEO ARCHIVE- INTERVIEW 24768 . GOLD-EYE I like trees… grass… only birds in sky. People walking safe. Family No Creatures. Sleep all night safe. Walk…
— Garth Nix
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Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and a new model…
— David Bentley Hart
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Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life…
— Mark Twain
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In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He…
— Steig Larsson
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Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
— John Updike
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It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we…
— Josh Bazell
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[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures…
— Aeschylus
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All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.
— Brian Jacques
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