Creeps Quotes - Page 8

• Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep."
  Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.

  Rita Gelman

  Inspirational, Keys, Joy

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• How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Two, Forget

  National Anti-Slavery Standard, 27 Apr. 1867

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• I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep

  Nina Simone

  Believe, Men, Hair

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• As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.

  Jonathan Falwell

  Philosophy, Teaching, Doctrine

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• Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.

  Questlove

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the Halloween Tree. 'You don't really know!'

  Ray Bradbury

  Halloween, Climbing, Tree

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “The Halloween Tree”, p.2, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.

  Herodotus

  Water, Joy, Greek

  "The Histories". Book by Herodotus, c. 440 BC.

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• How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

  Hilaire Belloc

  Fall, Past, Shadow

  Hilaire Belloc (1954). “The Verse of Hilaire Belloc”

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• The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Horse, Coffee

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.90, Beacon Press

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• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Angel

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 54

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• The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, Mean, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.150, tredition

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• But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

  Lena Dunham

  Moving, Ambition, Thinking

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.185, Random House

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• Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness:
  Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to the sea's brave music; I shall sing my song above the shriek of desert winds.

  Everett Ruess

  Song, Mountain Peaks, Wind

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• American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains so many cracks through which the lawyers may creep.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Children, Cracks, Looks

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• Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further.

  Gary Panter

  Order, Worry, Style

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• Meditation is meeting eternity in the present moment. It is resolving every problem as it comes. It is resolving every tension as it creeps in. It is facing the challenges of life in a non-fearful way.

  Vimala Thakar

  Practice, Meditation, Challenges

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• You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.

  Joe Garagiola

  Friendship, Dog, Rejects You

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• The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun; bang it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to be looking, all the little facts will come and peck round your feet, situations will venture forth from thickets and intentions will creep out and sun themselves on a stone; and if you are very patient, you will see and understand a great deal more than a man with a gun.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Running, Gun, Men

  Elspeth Huxley (2000). “The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood”, p.264, Penguin

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• To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Heart, Feels, Living Things

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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• Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Appreciation, Cousin, Relatives And Friends

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• My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.

  David Gilmour

  Player, Guitar, Style

  Sounds: Guitar Heroes magazine, May 1983.

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• As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

  Alexander Pope

  Music, Church, Dull

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 347

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• I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it...I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth...This is I, the machine, manoeuvering in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations... Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.

  Dziga Vertov

  Running, Horse, Moving

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• Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

  Aimee Mullins

  Self, Doubt, May

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