“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.” TwoWarEndsSometimesLanguagePoorWatchesBreakTakenGroupsSocietyStrangeHolyCreaturesBehaviorEatingRiversEggsCommandmentsTribesMonkeysPotatoesHeresyWashingCrusadesDivingBewilderment Author:Arthur Koestler
“All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of now, from all the worlds like ours, only fractionally different. And we follow them with our eyes, ghost things, and the humans see nothing.” WorldHumansDifferentEyePastWatchesCreaturesCatGhostInfinityPassagesEchoes Author:Neil Gaiman
“How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile.” HeartEarthHateHeavenSidesWatchesCreaturesHotFatsBreathingClimbsTailsBullsDefianceStiles Book:Personal Pleasures Source: Personal Pleasures
“Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand in the wings and watch other people take the curtain calls while his own contributions get lost in the shuffle.” PeopleHumansLostHuman BeingsAcceptingWatchesForeverGrowingCreaturesWingsContributionCurtainsSubordinationShuffleAdaptableCurtain Call Author:Rod Serling
“It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, six billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.” YearsHumansDifferentWatchesSunCreaturesSixBillionsDemiseBacteriaCulmination Author:Martin Rees
“I don't like weak women and I don't find it interesting to play them. I'm inspired by them, when I see them in dramas, like with Natalie Portman, in almost every movie she's in. It's awesome that chicks can really go there, and it's beautiful to watch, but I don't think I'm interested, in any way, shape or form, in embodying those creatures.” ThinkingWayPlayBeautifulFormInterestingWatchesDramaShapesCreaturesWeakInspiredChicksWeak Women Author:Michelle Rodriguez