Creatures Quotes

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Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs — Melina Marchetta
Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated… — Terry Pratchett
A world of automata â€“ of creatures that worked like machines â€“ would hardly be worth creating. — C.S. Lewis
You are the noblest, purest creature I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you," he whispered. — Stephenie Meyer
About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and… — Stephen King
Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is… — David Rakoff
Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world." "Who told you this?"… — Libba Bray
Why no aggressive action?" Foaly squirmed in a harness built for two-legged creatures. "Oh yes, why no aggressive action? How I long for aggressive action."… — Eoin Colfer
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could… — Leo Tolstoy
You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your… — Ray Bradbury
I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull… — Jane Austen
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires… — Soren Kierkegaard
The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents â€” because they have… — Frank Zappa
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in… — Ian Mcewan
Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into… — Charles Dickens
I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that… — Wendell Berry
Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's… — Wendell Berry
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration,… — Charles Dickens

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