Creatures Quotes
2516 quotes by 1578 authors
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Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they…
— Cormac McCarthy
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A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived…
— Kiran Desai
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Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a…
— Frances Mayes
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He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.
— H.G. Wells
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But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?" "Yeah, I guess so,†I said, But it’s not true. A mockingbird is…
— Suzanne Collins
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
— Roald Dahl
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What would he imagine next? Little hairy beasties tap-dancing on his sofa, or other fey creatures sneaking up on him in the shower?’ (Syn)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can…
— Richard Bach
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The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be…
— Orson Scott Card
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
— Aimee Bender
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When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived…
— John McPhee
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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
— Jane Austen
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed…
— Emily Bronte
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He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O…
— Said Nursi
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My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something to love, I…
— Neil Gaiman
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No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf,…
— Juliet Marillier
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Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.
— Janet Fitch
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