Creature Quotes - page 26

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon. (Benicio Del Toro)
It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to ... ride and don't let go and you will be fine. View quote
Tori Amos
For seven blissful years I had spent my time reading, writing and researching a book about introversion. But the publication date had arrived, the idyll was over and my metamorphosis was complete. I was now that impossibly oxymoronic creature: the Public Introvert. View quote
Susan Cain
And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are? View quote
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man. View quote
Seneca
True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. View quote
Joseph Addison
Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority. View quote
Stanley Milgram
They say state-of-the-art special effects can create the illusion of anything on the screen, and now we have proof: It's possible for the Jim Henson folks and Industrial Light and Magic to put their heads together and come up with the most repulsive single creature in the history of special effects, and I am not forgetting the Chucky doll or the desert intestine from Star wars. View quote
Roger Ebert
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats? View quote
Steven Pinker
I deny that villany is ever necessary. It is impossible that it should ever be necessary for any reasonable creature to violate all the laws of justice, mercy, and truth. No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity. View quote
John Wesley
Tell me, is the cabbage you mention not as much a creature of God as you? Do you not both have God and potentiality for your father and mother? For all eternity has God not occupied His intellect with the cabbage's birth as well as yours? It also seems that He has necessarily provided more for the birth of the vegetable than for the thinking being... Will anyone say that we are born in the image of the Sovereign Being, while cabbages are not? (Cyrano de Bergerac)
I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names. View quote
Paul Walker
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. View quote
Arthur Eddington
What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature... That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in. View quote
Tom Wolfe
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. View quote
William Temple
Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There is a legend about a bird that sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. View quote
Colleen McCullough
I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created. View quote
Ali MacGraw
Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature? View quote
Rita Moreno
I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl. View quote
Shirley Manson
Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed. (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)
These Revelations were shewed to a simple creature unlettered, the year of our Lord 1373, the Thirteenth day of May. View quote
Julian of Norwich
But when He of His special grace will shew Himself here, He strengtheneth the creature above its self, and He measureth the Shewing, after His own will, as it is profitable for the time. View quote
Julian of Norwich
In this blissful Shewing of our Lord I have understanding of two contrary things: the one is the most wisdom that any creature may do in this life, the other is the most folly. View quote
Julian of Norwich
Our soul is so specially loved of Him that is highest, that it overpasseth the knowing of all creatures: that is to say, there is no creature that is made that may know how much and how sweetly and how tenderly our Maker loveth us. View quote
Julian of Norwich