Creeps Quotes - Page 2

• Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

  William Cowper

  Positive, Men, Way

  William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.177

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• But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

  Mos Def

  Decent, Halfway, Deserve

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• It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

  Jacqueline McKenzie

  Self, Doubt, Growing

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• Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

  William Shakespeare

  Futility Of Life, Play, Life And Death

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

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• Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Pain, Memories, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Nov 07, 2012

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• Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Going Away, Sides

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• Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

  Origen

  Lying, Soldier, Battle

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• Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Fate, Destiny, Eagles

  The House in Paris pt. 2, ch. 2 (1935)

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• I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere, they are visible yet everywhere occult.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Rocks, Sea, Land

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• We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.

  Penn Jillette

  People, Creepy, Stuff

  Interview with Ken.P, www.ign.com. October 13, 2003.

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• Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

  Franz Kafka

  Liberty, Atlas, Literature

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! 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, Death

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

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• Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Prayer, Long

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• So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

  Diana Krall

  Art, Imagination, Linear

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• Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Futility Of Life, Lady Macbeth

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

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• The insolence of wealth will creep out.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disrespect, Wealth, Insolence

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 316 (18 April 1778)

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• I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Play, Balls

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, Death, Light

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 50

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• I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.

  Rainn Wilson

  Thinking, People, Range

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

  Eminem

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

  Vincent Gallo

  Love, People, Creepy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Degrees, Certain

  "The new Jasper Fforde: a brave new bookworld!". www.wired.com. February 23, 2011.

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• Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Wall, Men, Path

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Catherine Golden (2004). “Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.144, Psychology Press

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• My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

  Penn Jillette

  Inspirational, Real, Technology

  "Thoughts On the Business of Life". "Forbes" Magazine, November 12, 2007.

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