Quotes of: Creatures Keyword

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.

Clive Anderson

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Cecil Beaton

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.

Craig Brown

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb.

Gloria Steinem

Anne Rice really doesn't explore vampires as hideous monsters of the night, they're ancient creatures with a heart. And they want to be loved and they want connections just like we do.

James Marsters

The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.

Jean Patou

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

Jack Vance

We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.

David Christian

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

D. H. Lawrence

A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Marcus Aurelius

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Jeremy Bentham

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

Richard Dawkins

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

Robert Lanza

Wikus Van De Merwe: I would never have any kind of... pornographic activity with a fokkin' creature!

District 9

Juliet Hulme: Only the best people fight against all obstacles in pursuit of happiness.

Heavenly Creatures

Juliet Hulme: All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic.

Heavenly Creatures

Juliet Hulme: Affairs are much more exciting than marriages. [Then, with disgust] Juliet Hulme: As Mummy can testify.

Heavenly Creatures

Zidler: The show must go on, Satine. We're creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love.

Moulin Rouge!

Todd Ingram: I partake not in the meat, nor the breastmilk, nor the ovum, of any creature, with a face.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World