Creatures Quotes
2516 quotes by 1578 authors
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How could you deal with a creature as devious as woman.
— Christopher Moore
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Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.
— Suzanne Collins
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Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity,…
— Christopher Isherwood
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When you look into the faces of these quiet creatures who don't know how to tell stories--who are mute, who can't make themselves heard, who…
— Orhan Pamuk
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we cannot expect things…
— Rachel Carson
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Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by.…
— Maeve Brennan
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We are creatures of story.
— Helen Dunmore
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I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.
— A. S. Byatt
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Zakath's face grew thoughtful. "You know something, Garion?" he said. "Man thinks he owns the world, but we share it with all sorts of creatures…
— David Eddings
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If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.
— Marianne Moore
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I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.
— Shirley Jackson
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I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and…
— Gregory Maguire
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...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied…
— David Eddings
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We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same…
— Catherine Marshall
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There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio…
— Neil Gaiman
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Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only…
— Deborah Harkness
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In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans…
— Hayao Miyazaki
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And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God…
— John Milton
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