If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship. '
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.
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?
Vengeous scowled. 'As you can see,' he said, 'you are vastly outnumbered. ' I usually am. ' Your situation has become quite untenable. ' It usually does. ' You are within moments of being swarmed by these filthy creatures of undeath and torn apart in a maelstrom of pain and fury. ' Skulduggery paused. 'Okay, that's a new one on me.
If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and none more so than I). I have, therefore, for the Glory of God, who wants to be recognized from the book of Nature, that these things may be published as quickly as possible. The more others build on my work the happier I shall be.
A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.
Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? but realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one.
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.
Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures. . . who are capable of organizing sounds in this way, either when uttering them or when perceiving them. We can hear music in the song of the nightingale, but it is music that no nightingale has heard.
I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.
How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.
The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.
Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time.
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.
Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.
I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I've ever seen.
Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.