Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Shubin

Here is a creature with fins that can do push-ups.

God kills indescriminantly, and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.

William Hazlitt

It is great to shake off the trammels of the world and of public opinion . . . and become the creature of the moment . . . known by no other title than The Gentleman in the Parlour!

Kingsley Amis

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

Bobby Miller

Humans are surely the most frightened creatures on earth. We cry out, 'Give us someone to worship, anyone, even a ghost will do.'

Abraham Cowley

For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell me why?

Doug Jones

That's kind of how my jobs have happened over the years. It's been referrals throughout the creature effects/make-up world. The drawings happen, and they see that it's a tall, skinny thing, and they go, 'Let's get Doug Jones for that.'

Bea Arthur

I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?

Brendan Myers

There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.

Jayne Mansfield

Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands.

Edmund Spenser

Whiles every sence teh humour sweet embayd, / And slombring soft my hart did steale away, / Me seemed, by my side a royall Mayd / Her daintie limbs full softly down did lay: / So faire a creature yet saw never sunny day.

Stanley Hauerwas

Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.

Finley Dunne

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

Thomas Carlyle

Let me have my own way exactly in everything, and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

J. J. Johnson

Players, Sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs

O. J. Simpson

Players are creatures of habit and will revert back to some of the instinctive things they do, so you have to be prepared, I think, to be killing off 10-12 penalties a game and getting 10 or 12 power plays. You do the math.

Michael Arrington

I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem.

Albert Schweitzer

We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

Robert Stack

Most everyone with any sense knows that all creatures need a suitable place to live. If the places to live are not sufficient to ensure the recovery of the frog, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to predict the consequences.

Bridget: My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

Jimmy Sangster

We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing.

Jim Taylor

The dirtier you are, the tougher you are. Men want to prove they're the toughest, most rugged creatures out there.

And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

Alphonsus Liguori

And divine grace is the inestimable treasure through which vile creatures and servants like ourselves become dear friends of our Creator.

Henry Selick

Cyclops, that's like this primal fear. I had dreams for years that the Cyclops was a small creature living in our huge fish tank at home, and at night, it was going to grow to full size and come after me.

Jean Giraudoux

A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

Be somebody other than who you are. You can be a historical figure, a member of royalty, a creature from outer space.

Joe Rohde

During my expedition to the Himalayas, I was surprised to hear the Yeti is looked upon as a creature that guards the mountain's pristine environment.

Martin Freeman

I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.

Kofi Annan

The sheer size of this creature humbles us, ... It tells us that the Earth is not ours, but a treasure we hold in trust for future generations.

Joseph Addison

These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.

These creatures all together shall yield milk for us; do thou, O earth, give us the honey of speech!