Creatures Quotes - Page 9

There's a Drunk Midget in My House Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts. Like most people who have had one baby, I am an expert on everythiing and will tell you, unsolicited, how to raise your kid!

Tina Fey

Baby, Kids, Adorable

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Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the Ra'zac, long-lost family members, and mysterious acts of magic as if they were were starving weasels and you were a rabbit that wandered into their den.

Christopher Paolini

Long, Magic, Enemy

"Brisingr: Book Three". Book by Christopher Paolini, September 20, 2008.

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It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he had the feeling that he wasn't alone. Harry believed in the existence of the soul. Not that he was particularly religious as such, but it was one thing which always struck him when he saw a dead body: the body was bereft of something...the creature had gone, the light had gone,there was not the illusory afterglow that long-since burned-out stars have. The body was missing its soul and it was the absence of the soul that made Harry believe.

Jo Nesbo

Religious, Stars, Believe

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One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.

Michael Scott

Dna, Secret, Creation

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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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...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him.

Terry Pratchett

Hair, Monk, Said

Terry Pratchett (2008). “Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26)”, p.60, Random House

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Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.

John Green

Hands, Ducks, Together

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.105, Penguin

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Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

Jane Goodall

Kindness, Animal, Intelligent

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Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.

Henry Rollins

Beautiful, Moon, Jewels

Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.311, Villard

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When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.

Algernon Blackwood

Imagination, Darkness, Suggestions

Algernon Blackwood (2008). “Three Supernatural Classics: The Willows, the Wendigo and the Listener”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don’t you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.

Catherynne M. Valente

Clever, Selfish, Kissing

Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.72, Macmillan

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...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.

Maggie Stiefvater

Two, Long, Upset

Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.165, Scholastic Inc.

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I'd never taken to four foot creatures who had the uncanny ability to point out all my flaws in thirty second flat. And just for the record, I can too read without moving my lips.

Darynda Jones

Moving, Taken, Feet

Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.39, Macmillan

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...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?

Jane Goodall

Hurt, Fighting, Special

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Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a maiden in a tower—" At this the Witch spat, again rolling her marvelous eyes. "Those revolting creatures are always getting themselves locked up. If only they would stay that way.

Catherynne M. Valente

Eye, Mistress, Rolling

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She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.

Guy de Maupassant

Girl, Sweet, Artist

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Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I'm a social creature but there are times and places you just don't want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.

Laura Anne Gilman

Morning, Mean, Mind

Laura Anne Gilman (2011). “Pack of Lies”, p.65, LUNA

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This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.

Michael Morpurgo

Horse, War, Butterfly

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You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

Zadie Smith

Live Life, Action, Consequence

Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.86, Vintage

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I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Sports, Art, Hate

Frankenstein ch. 10 (1818)

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It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Character, Wish, May

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Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.

William S. Burroughs

Cute, Cat, Self

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Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

Richard Siken

Sorry, Should Have, Together

Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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Mind control won't work on those who are really hardheaded. You know… Creatures like you.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Mind, Like You, Knows

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.26, Macmillan

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A faint light burned in the pit revealing a furry creature hunched over a stone slab, fiddling with something. At first Gregor raised a warning hand. He thought it was a rat. Then the creature lifted his head and Gregor recognized what was left of his dad.

Suzanne Collins

Dad, Light, Hands

Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.154, Scholastic Inc.

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