(84 quotes found)
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
Helen Keller
“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musicCreep in our ears; soft stillness, and the nightBecome the touches of sweet harmony.”
William Shakespeare
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, 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”
“A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.”
Christy Mathewson
“Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.”
Elizabeth Bowen
“It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep”
Proverb
“"What is the matter?" he cried. "For God's sake, what are you doing!"I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. "I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!” 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
“Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black,Cutting through the forest with a golden track.”
Vachel Lindsay
“Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.”
Cliff Fadiman
