Creature Quotes

• There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Families
  • Creature
  • Kingdom

• Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Movies
  • Schools
  • Testing

• One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Society
  • Civilization
  • Female

• Trying to get answers from this creature was like manhandling a fat cow.

  

  Ben Galley
  • Answers
  • Creature
  • Cow

• What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Single
  • Liberty
  • Creature

• We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Body
  • Creature
  • Kingdom

• The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

  

  George Eliot
  • Doubt
  • Idea
  • Creature

• Excellent creature! How my soul pants for thee!

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Soul
  • Creature

• Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

  

  George Wald
  • Planet
  • Creature
  • Organism

• Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities.

  

  Rick Baker
  • Because
  • Creature
  • Limitations

• Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Heart
  • Pride
  • Protection

• We are so grateful we are given the chance and the freedom to do what we want, what we want to create, what's on our mind, and that's honestly what we asked for in the beginning of our career.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Freedom
  • Chance
  • Creature

• There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.

  

  Edward Topsell
  • Wisdom
  • Demonstration
  • Beasts

• And Ferris had watched Alec go past him out of the door noted the bones...but he never would have connected that ragged man with the honey-and-acid creature who'd insulted him at Diane's house.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Past
  • Connected
  • Creature

• I saw her fly toward the asphalt and felt a cruel joy. She seemed to me, as she fell, an ugly creature.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Joy
  • Creature
  • Asphalt

• I am a strange creature. I want to challenge myself and keep people guessing with the roles I take.

  Eugene Simon
  • Challenge
  • Roles
  • Creature

• Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Trust
  • Rush
  • Heartbeat

• Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Creature
  • Prisoner
  • Timeless

• What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

  

  James Boswell
  • Man
  • Creature
  • Curious

• She is a beautiful creature, but beauty doesn't equal good and it certainly doesn't equal sane.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Creature

• I was a creature of the night, I wasn't supposed to be afraid of the dark. Not that it was the dark I was afraid of - it was the other creatures of the night.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Night
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Society
  • Valley
  • Repose

• I wrote to one of my doctors: I could never have guessed what would get me through this past year - a woodland snail and its offspring; I honestly don't think I would have made it otherwise. Watching another creature go about its life...somehow gave me, the watcher, purpose too. If life mattered to the snail and the snail mattered to me, it meant something in my life mattered, so I kept on...

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Purpose
  • My Life
  • Doctors

• For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Sense
  • Creature
  • Mechanism

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