Creeps Quotes - Page 9

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Names, House, Curiosity

Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times.

Diane von Furstenberg

Fashion, Morning, Sleep

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You can accomplish so much with a strong will. Just do your best, no matter what. Don't let negative thoughts creep in. Don't talk yourself out of anything.

Rebecca Twigg

Softball, Sports, Strong

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...what will be the outcome of this kind of thing? Holton predicts that "at best, the result could be Muslim enclaves in Western communities in which sharia supercedes native law." Or "at worst, sharia could start to creep into our lives and laws, changing our way of life little by little over time." That would be entirely in line with the stealth jihad goal of Islamizing American society.

Robert Spencer

Law, Goal, Community

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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Margaret Mead

Family, Women, Matter

"Future Families". Margaret Mead in "The American People in the Age of Kennedy" edited by David M. Kennedy (p. 108), 1973.

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It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself up out of the dark abyss of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.

H. L. Mencken

Dog, Humor, Dark

"On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1956.

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And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.

Herodotus

War, Water, Giving

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Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain
Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

John McCrae

Rain, Bird, Village

John McCrae (2015). “In Flanders Fields and Other Poems”, p.30, Dundurn

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Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.

Questlove

Art, Mean, Thinking

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In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere because they don't know the destiny that is being worked out for them. They creep humbly along the ground, without the spacious aerial vision of their lives that would show them the destiny in store for them.

Ron Chernow

Book, Destiny, Waiting

Charles Richard Johnson, Ron Chernow (1991). “In Search of a Voice”

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Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the Halloween Tree. 'You don't really know!'

Ray Bradbury

Halloween, Climbing, Tree

Ray Bradbury (2015). “The Halloween Tree”, p.2, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.

Rita Gelman

Inspirational, Keys, Joy

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To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret.

James Hutton

Regret, Reading, Humble

James Hutton (1997). “Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations, in Four Parts”, p.46, Geological Society of London

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For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden falls. I have most faith in the individual or enterprise that advances step by step. A mushroom can spring up in a day; an oak takes 50 years or more to reach maturity. Mushrooms don't last; oaks do. The real cause for an enormous number of business failures is premature over-expansion, attempting to gallop before learning to creep. Sudden successes often invite sudden reverses.

B. C. Forbes

Success, Spring, Real

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Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

John Gierach

Fishing, Long, Trout

John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep."
Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

Khalil Gibran

Inspirational, Life, Running

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep

Nina Simone

Believe, Men, Hair

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The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.

Herodotus

Water, Joy, Greek

"The Histories". Book by Herodotus, c. 440 BC.

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How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

Hilaire Belloc

Fall, Past, Shadow

Hilaire Belloc (1954). “The Verse of Hilaire Belloc”

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Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.

Vikas Swarup

Dream, Sweet, Air

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We often hear Islamists declare, 'We love death as much as you people in the west love life.' Well, if we're going to now celebrate and jubilate in the death of Bin Laden, I have to say, I think that comes eerily close to mimicking the likes of the Islamists. And that gives me the creeps.

Irshad Manji

Love Life, Thinking, Giving

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They started doing it in reality TV, where writers don't have union protections and are easy marks for getting this kind of material in there. You're less likely to find it on network prime-time series, but the creep is moving in that direction. It has become intrusive and overwhelming to us as a union of writers.

Patric Verrone

Moving, Reality, Unions

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The pedigree's pretty high. For people who are really scary movie fans, this is nirvana. If you're in the mood to get scared, just watch this every week. It'll creep you out.

John Landis

People, Scary, Fans

"Directors get creepy with 'Masters of Horrors'". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. October 27, 2005.

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Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

Hunter S. Thompson

Waiting, Firsts, Loathing

Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.

Robert Hunter

Morning, Fall, Blood

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