Quotes About Creatures

Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it.

I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological creatures running around, and I'm pulling very heavily on my background as a folklore major and having done some animation work and all of that, and I'm pulling from the modern fairy tale narrative.

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

Knowing how much carbon dioxide the ocean is storing is crucial to modeling future climate changes, and given the prevalence of these creatures around the world and how much water they can filter, it is likely a significant amount.

According to Kalakta, Yautja had always hunted Xenomorphs, not fled from them in a blind, cowardly panic. But this … tale of weaponised Xenomorphs, conducting controlled attacks, showing strategic awareness, and acting as units rather than individual creatures … It was crazy, and terrifying. It was wonderful.

They could draw many parallels between dolphins and Xenomorphs.

Look, anything that has eyes all over its body should know better than to attack someone. It's like wearing armor made out of your own testicles.

I suppose it's possible that to the assembled vampires, werebeasts, demons, and assorted other creatures, the band's music was pleasing, even soothing, but to my zombie ears, it sounded like a dozen vehicles colliding head-on at a hundred miles an hour… over and over and over.

Humans are imperfect creatures. You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them.

Most "superheroes" are nothing of the sort. They're weird, neurotic creatures who do big things DESPITE lots of self-defeating habits and self-talk.

And were you cornered by her, eye to eye, you would see that there are still some watchful creatures whose essence lies unbound by words. There is still a wilderness.

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time.

Venus is kind to creatures as young as we; We know not what we do, and while we're young We have the right to live and love like gods.

We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.

Dharma (cosmic law) aims at the happiness of all creatures.

We women are peculiar creatures. We tend not to love those who murder our families.

The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core—which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word love.

Abstinence, then, makes way for engagement. If the places in our blood cells designed to carry oxygen are occupied by carbon monoxide, we die for lack of oxygen. If the places in our souls that are to be indwelt by God and his service are occupied by food, sex, and society, we die or languish for lack of God and right relation to his creatures. A proper abstinence actually breaks the hold of improper engagements so that the soul can be properly engaged in and by God.

What do you call that feeling when you're certain that the world is doomed? It's one of those feelings that's physical, like low blood sugar or too much caffeine, a message from the lizard brain. But for a moment you know that it's not just you. Not just Cleveland. It's everything. We, the creatures of the earth, are really and truly fucked.

I had great Reason to consider it as a Determination of Heaven, that in this desolate Place, and in this desolate Manner I should end my life; the Tears would run plentifully down my Face when I made these Reflections, and sometimes I would expostulate with myself, Why Providence should thus compleately ruine its Creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable, so without Help abandon'd, so entirely depress'd, that it could be hardly rational to be thankful for such a Life.

invisible creatures, who enter into the body with the breath, or even at the pores with the air, and there generate or emit most acute poisons, or poisonous ovae or eggs

"Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise; Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer."

Women are wonderful. They're amazing creatures. You can never learn enough! They're addicting in the most amazing sense.