Creeps Quotes - Page 11

• I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
  [Lat., Et idem
  Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
  Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

  Horace

  Sleep, Long, Bonus

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• Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when you’re not looking, it’s there, at your front door, on your desk, in the mirror, or not, not any of that, it’s the lack of all that. One day, when you are looking, it’s not looking, no one is. You lie in your bed and realize that if you don’t get out of bed and into the world today, it is very likely no one will even notice.

  Charles Yu

  Lying, Mirrors, Doors

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• On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy Krueger. Granuaile MacTiernan

  Kevin Hearne

  Awards, Freddy Krueger, Hello

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• The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.

  Charlaine Harris

  Couple, Rip, Night

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.190, Penguin

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• terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind

  Charles Bukowski

  Cat, Mind, Terror

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• What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic legend drably disguised as text-book fact. With this creeps in the tacit assumption that other nations have not equally their heroes; perhaps even the belief - surely it is very bad biology - that we can literally 'inherit' tradition.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Hero, Long

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• Oompa-Loompa Land?” He shook his head. “No way. Orange people give me the creeps. I don’t even like fake tans. I’d never be their king.

  Larissa Ione

  Kings, Land, Orange

  Larissa Ione (2012). “Rogue Rider: Number 4 in series”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Space, Adults

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2013.

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• I hate that she's hurt. I hate that she's been hurt, by me and by others, throughout the entire arc of her life. I barely remember pain, but when I see it in her I feel it in myself, in disproportionate measure. it creeps into my eyes, stinging, burning.

  Isaac Marion

  Hurt, Pain, Hate

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-destruction.

  Amish Tripathi

  Self, Hands, May

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• Curran scrutinized Mart’s face. “I can’t figure out if he wants to kill you or screw you.” “I’ll be glad to make the choice for him.” Curran looked back at me. “Why is it you always attract creeps?” “You tell me.” Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did.

  Ilona Andrews

  Choices, Want, Faces

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• Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in its turn soon begins to sweat for something to quench its heat, and the mellowest of autumns will tire of gentility at last, and ache for a quick sharp frost to kill its fruitfulness. Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.

  Clive Barker

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  Clive Barker (1991). “The Hellbound Heart”, Voyager

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• Thinking about her again caused his body to harden, to ready... "Uh, I'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but I had no idea you would like it so much," Paris muttered. For the first time in hundreds of years, Maddox felt a blush creep into his cheek, "It's not for you." "Thank the gods," was his friends reply. -Maddox and Paris

  Gena Showalter

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Gena Showalter (2008). “Lords of the Underworld Bundle: The Darkest Fire\The Darkest Night\The Darkest Kiss\The Darkest Pleasure”, p.231, HQN Books

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• You’re a sad little hermit, and it creeps me out.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Littles, Hermits

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.52, Pan Macmillan

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• That's not the point," he said. "What kind of creep would I be if I let my girl carry something heavy while I walked along, swinging my arms?" Your girl? "The kind that respects my wishes," she said. "And my strength, and my... arms." Levi grinned some more. Because he wasn't taking her seriously. "I have a lot of respect for your arms. I like how they're attached to the rest of you.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, Wish, Arms

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl: Special Edition”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Humorous, Drinking, Beer

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• Don't confuse [Father's Day] with Valentine's Day, and here's why. Boy, will you creep him out. I can just tell you from last year, uh, even if they do like chocolate, they don't want it from their son.

  Jon Stewart

  Fathers Day, Valentine, Son

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• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

  Oscar Wilde

  Morning, Eye, Night

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.360, GENERAL PRESS

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• A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Ambition, Men

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• When I was a girl I creeped in the boys locker room
  Hide deep inside, it was my little creep stalker room
  As they disrobed I was oogling & oggling
  Little did they know that for me they were modeling

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Flirty, Boys

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• We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.

  Tennessee Williams

  Sleep, Next Day, Giving

  Tennessee Williams (1964). “The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore”, p.56, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• [The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so childishly to toddle along the benches, nay, to creep in the mire, and cannot skip and dance, on such light feet and legs, over and outside of God's commandments, as they do, the strong heroes and giants ... God forbid that we should!

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Sarcastic, Strong

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• There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blood, Vices, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1968). “Nature: With an Introd., a Note on the Text”

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• Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

  Homer

  Men, Earth, Breathe

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• It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.

  Virginia Woolf

  Determination, Book, Writing

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.37, HMH

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