Creature Quotes

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

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

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

Every creature is a word of God.

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

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.

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

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