Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

Sonya Hartnett

I mostly wrote 'Thursday's Child' to explore the idea of a wild child - a creature who lived much as humans used to live, when our needs were simple and our worlds were small.

Ken Ham

The Creation Museum uses fossils to present evidence that there was a global catastrophe, Noah's Flood, that killed and preserved the remains of creatures all over the earth.

Know that all creatures have evolved from this twofold energy, and Brahman is the origin as well as the dissolution of the entire universe.

Neil Shubin

What we saw was a real mosaic between characteristics of fish and those previously thought to be only in land animals. The fossil was showing us how creatures were assembled over time to live on land.

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.

William Wordsworth

O Nightingale, thou surely art/ A creature of a 'fiery heart'.

John Green

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Men tend to be creatures of habit. Once they have integrated a brand, they stick with it, unlike women who will try all kinds of products from a number of different lines.

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.

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.

Richard Leakey

As we sit today, it is important to remember we are talking about the future of a member of our family, not a strange creature that lives in the jungle.

Jason Hill

It's impressive how such a tiny creature in sheer numbers can drive you insane.

Ramsey Clark

There's too much violence in the country, there's too much division and too much pressure on the court. The project ought to be abandoned. It was a creature of the United States in the first place.

That intelligent creatures exist in outerspace is proven by the fact that they have not contacted us.

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We dont remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We dont understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.

Sylvia Earle

Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

Jayne Mansfield

Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands.

Stephen Furst

I felt different from everyone else - like an alien. The looks I received when I was 320 pounds were ones usually reserved for three-eyed monsters, half-man half-woman reptiles, creatures with hideous rolls of skin that sweated profusely and jiggled when they walked. That last one really was me.

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.

Kris Humphries

It's not superstition, but I do everything exactly the same on game days. I'm a creature of habit. I eat the same breakfast, and then I drive the same way to practice. Then I come back and eat the same exact same lunch before every game.

Heaven and earth are ruthless and treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs.

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.

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!

The renderings for the first time give us a look at what these creatures looked like and how they moved.

Jean Giraudoux

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