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Quotes About Creatures

his monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes..
~ James Joyce
He'd given up squid merchanting when he'd found that the creatures inhabited his dreams, all leggy and cold.
~ James P. Blaylock
In an ideal world, you don't want creatures where they shouldn't be because there's always unintended consequences.
~ Jeremy Wade
All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
~ Marguerite Young
All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.
~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
You'd be amazed at how much power women have over men - and the basic control is nagging... Men are very simple creatures, like puppies.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".
~ Nan Goldin
Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men, particularly on a boat.
~ Nick Willing
You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.
~ Freddie Mercury
Venture-backed startups with billion dollar market caps are called 'unicorns' because they are supposed to be rare mythical creatures that few entrepreneurs will ever ride.
~ Jay Samit
Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.
~ Elliott Abrams
Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as stedfastly believe.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The attic is not haunting your head – your head is haunting the attic. Some heads are more haunted than others, whether they are haunted by ghosts or by gods or by creatures from outer space.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Some heads are more haunted than others, whether they are haunted by ghosts or by gods or by creatures from outer space.
~ Thomas Ligotti
The darkness of the grotesque is an immortal enigma: in all legends of the dead, in all the tales of creatures of the night, in all the mythologies of mad gods and lucid demons, there remains a kind of mocking nonsense to the end, a thick and resonant voice which calls out from the heart of these stories and declares: 'Still I am here.
~ Thomas Ligotti
I believe in one God and no more, and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.
~ Thomas Paine
You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I'm basically nocturnal.
~ B. D. Wong
I do think that narrative, long-form nonfiction is the perfect form because it's rooted in something very real, but we're also, you know, completely spiritual, emotional creatures driven by all sorts of desires and needs.
~ Michael Paterniti
As a kid I was obsessed with monster movies.
~ Michael Giacchino
I have such love to the point of obsessions of people and their minds, and I'm constantly trying to find the beauty in things, and I think people are such unique and complex creatures.
~ Sasha Lane
Casi todos nuestros clientes dejan de existir -¡no queda el alma!- o los reencarna el Dummkopf, al que no le gusta ceder a ninguna de sus criaturas, grandes o pequeñas, juiciosas o insensatas, lo cual puede que sea una razón de que el mundo esté cada vez más plagado de mediocridad.
~ Norman Mailer
Food is a gift of God given to all creatures for the purposes of life's nurture, sharing, and celebration. When it is done in the name of God, eating is the earthly realization of God's eternal communion-building love.
~ Norman Wirzba