Creatures Quotes - Page 7

• Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.

  Seamus Heaney

  Art, Thinking, Deep Relationship

  Source: www.questia.com

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• What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.

  Rodney Clapp

  Worry, People, Historical

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• As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Writing, Practice

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. 2007.

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• Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Beautiful, Lessons, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always loved those little creatures [hummingbird], always feel blessed when they appear nearby. There's a magical quality to them. I finally put one in a song.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Blessed, Quality

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• Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. Become a creature of champion habits.

  Darren Hardy

  Hard Work, Discipline, Champion

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Nov 30, 2011

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• When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally, to be religious. In fact, it's because I believe in God that I'm concerned about God's creatures. The religious impulse is primary.

  Andrew Linzey

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

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• I'm a diehard animal lover - I've always loved animals - but it was just one of those trips that I felt like I was going back to the beginning of where earth started. At the time, where a lot of stuff was brewing anyway, to be in such a beautiful and barren land, and just looking at how life began with all these creatures, I just started to really think about animals and time and just all of it.

  Jillian Hervey

  Beautiful, Animal, Thinking

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Social, Models

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".

  Nan Goldin

  Teenager, Hollywood, Saws

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.

  Socrates

  Art, Ignorance, Simple

  Source: www.howtodrawjourney.com

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• The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must be something about such creatures (or about such situations, or about both) in virtue of which it does so.

  Jerry Fodor

  Doe, Kind, Virtue

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative creatures. We desire to sort of understand each other's experiences and points of view. Storytelling is what painting, literature, filmmaking is all about.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Believe, Mean, Views

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• It took Christians many years to realize that we cannot love God and also keep humans as slaves. It has taken even longer for Christians to realize that we cannot love God and also regard women as second-class humans. Now is the time for Christians to realize that we cannot love God and hate the Creator's nonhuman creatures.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Hate, Taken

  Andrew Linzey (2000). “Animal Gospel”, p.21, Westminster John Knox Press

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• We are creatures like everything else in our world.

  Mordicai Gerstein

  Our World, World

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• My practice is focused on bodies and relationships; the relationships between people and other creatures, between people and our bodies, between creatures and the environment, between the artificial and the natural.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Practice, People, Body

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• Because we had to convince the scientific members of Transylvania that with the procedure I was using on the creature, Dr. Frankenstein could be taught to be a civilized human being, what I called a man about town. Instead of a monster who's going to kill their children, it was someone who could sing and dance.

  Gene Wilder

  Children, Men, Monsters

  Source: keranews.org

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• One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if they were the same kind of creature, with the same kinds of possibilities.

  Jane Jacobs

  Trying, Different, Kind

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you."

  Saint Augustine

  Children, May, Scripture

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.

  Jane Goodall

  Helping, Patient, Behavior

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Reason, Figures

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• If I had used the term "guardian angels" or spoke of our "guides," a lot fewer eyebrows would raise. So it's just a matter of terminology here. The main idea is that we are always recipients of God's help, whether it is through other of God's beloved creatures, or directly from the Divine Itself.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Angel, Eyebrows, Ideas

  Source: www.spiritualmediablog.com

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• A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.

  Terry Crews

  Football, Team, Guy

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Inheritance, Capability

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Because it’s our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.

  Richelle Mead

  Night, Evil, Rose

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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