Creeps Quotes

• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Creeps get rewarded for being creepy.

  Tom Scharpling

  Creepy

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• Its weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.

  Colleen Haskell

  People, Stuff, Haskell

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• Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

  Will Durst

  Happiness, Laughter, Fear

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• It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Brain, Cracks, Ecstasy

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• If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

  John Henry Newman

  Certainty, Soar, Ifs

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• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Loyalty, Hate, Thinking

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• Ambition can creep as well as soar.

  Edmund Burke

  Business, Ambition, Soar

  'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 3 (1797)

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• Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

  William Shenstone

  Law, Break Through, Texture

  'Essays on Men, Manners, and Things' 'On Politics' in 'Works' (1764) vol. 2.

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• Its kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

  Karen Carpenter

  Nice, People, Trying

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• I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

  Laurence Olivier

  Book, Eye, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

  John Dos Passos

  Men, Order, Relief

  John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”

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• It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

  Mike Leigh

  Obsession, Millions

  Interview with Derek Malcolm, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2002.

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• The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable

  Theodore Parker

  Brother, Soul, Naked

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.55

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• Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Self, Snakes

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• I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Respect, Men, Flesh

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• Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Writing, Mind, Flesh

  Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

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• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Night

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 54

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• I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.

  Thom Yorke

  Weirdo

  "Creep". Song by Thom Yorke, 1993.

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• We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Hurt, Ocean

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.220, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Giving, Sick, Soul

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• If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

  I. F. Stone

  Memories, Long, Virtue

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• Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

  Dyan Cannon

  Not Happy

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• One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  Address to American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, Philadelphia, Pa., 8 July 1896

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