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Quotes About Creatures

Dogie's surfboards were like works of art. Splashed across their rainbow-colored decks were air-brushed paintings of waterfalls and sea dragons and a host of other fantastic creatures. Her favorite painting was a winged horse that looked like part horse and part comet, with its long tail blazing down the length of the board.
~ Kathi Appelt
Not one of God's more intelligent creatures." "Basically, a brain stem on two legs.
~ Kathy Reichs
We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.
~ burroughs edgar rice ii
Safety is the preeminent concern of all creatures and it clearly justifies a seemingly abrupt and rejecting response from time to time. Anyway, rudeness is relative.
~ Gavin de Becker
Safety is the preeminent concern of all creatures and it clearly justifies a seemingly abrupt and rejecting response from time to time.
~ Gavin de Becker
There is something deeply awe-inspiring about the sight of any living creatures in incomputable numbers; it stirs, perhaps, some atavistic chord whose note belongs more properly to the distant days when we were a true part of the animal ecology; when the sight of another species in unthinkable hosts brought fears or hopes no longer applicable.
~ Gavin Maxwell
We have long laboured under an obtuse presupposition that the senses by which other living creatures perceive their world must to a great extent resemble our own; but in fact we are, by scientific invention, only now beginning to approach methods of perception that the whales have always owned as their birthright.
~ Gavin Maxwell
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard defining edges.
~ Gene Wolfe
Stuffed creatures, come to life and attack werewolves.
~ Genevieve Cogman
A high level of chaos would mean that they could expect to meet the Fae, creatures of chaos and magic, who were able to take form and cause disorder on such a corrupted world. And that was never good news
~ Genevieve Cogman
He was swearing in what Irene assumed were words well-brought-up dragons used when they didn't want to shock lesser creatures.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe.
~ Geoffrey Wood
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Hi. And what kind of screwed-up beastie would you be?
~ Ilona Andrews
The creatures are dangerous," he said. "And you're a very stubborn woman. You might decide to get yourself killed just to spite me.
~ Ilona Andrews
The endars were peaceful creatures. The green fur wasn't fur at all; it was moss that grew from their skin. They lived underneath old oaks, rooted to the big trees in a state of quiet hibernation, absorbing their nutrients and making rare excursions to the surface to lick the bark and feed on lichens. They stirred from their rest so rarely that pagan Slavs thought they fed on air.
~ Ilona Andrews
Azdaha were no joke. ... Not much is known about this dragon [the aforementioned Gandarw], except that he apparently had yellow heels. I wonder why that was such an important detail. I mean if I were describing Godzilla, the color of his heels wouldn't be the first thing I would mention.
~ Ilona Andrews
If the skies were able to dream, they would dream of dragons.
~ Ilona Andrews
The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.
~ Isabel Allende
At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.
~ Isabel Allende
Es posible que las historias sean criaturas con vida propia que existen en las sombras de una misteriosa dimensión.
~ Isabel Allende
I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.
~ Lewis Thomas
I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.
~ David Chipperfield