Top 177 Creature Quotes

Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.
George Will
I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.
Kathleen Quinlan
Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.
William Godwin
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
Krista Tippett
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Swami Vivekananda
‘Robopocalypse’ joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein’s monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature who has crashed the streets of Tokyo. And then, of course, there’s the Terminator.
Daniel H. Wilson
If there is one creature that represents my essence, it’s butterflies.
Patricia Velasquez
I’ve never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.
Peter Benchley
All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
Friedrich Schiller
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
Henri Bergson
A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
Mary Tyler Moore
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
William Inge
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.
Poppy Z. Brite
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I think I tend to try to let a woman walk through a door first, and I walk on the outside on the street. But that’s probably because I’m an ancient creature.
Jim Carter
I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn’t have to be a creature.
J. J. Abrams