Top 25 Creeps Quotes of 47

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

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

Dyan Cannon

Not Happy, Creeps

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

Edward Gorey

Drawing, Might, Creeps

Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.

John Bunyan

Running, Creeps, Walks

James Thomas, John Bunyan (2009). “Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English”, p.137, Moody Publishers

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke

Business, Ambition, Creeps

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

Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.

Laura Dave

Belief, Creeps, Make Sense

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

Ovid

Envy, Vices, Creeps

So many creeps in Hollywood.

Roger Hodgson

Reality, Hollywood, Creeps

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

Brain, Cracks, Creeps

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

John Dryden

Thinking, Age, Creeps

Juvenal, John Dryden, Nahum Tate, Persius, Richard Duke (1713). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, p.150

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, Creeps

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

Samuel Johnson

Disrespect, Wealth, Creeps

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

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here.

Thom Yorke

Hell, Radiohead, Creeps

"Song: 'Creep'". 1993.

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

Creeps, Certainty, Soar

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

Douglas William Jerrold

Snakes, Creeps, Slander

Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.55

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.

Thom Yorke

Creeps, Weirdo

"Creep". Song by Thom Yorke, 1993.

We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!

Helen Keller

Soul, Cry, Creeps

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

Barbra Streisand

Saws, Creeps, Wanted

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

William Macneile Dixon

Heart, Creeps, Feels

William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

William Cowper

Events, Creeps, Please

William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence”, p.50

I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and snatch at things, and bring them down with me... where I could munch away at them.

Paula Rego

Way, Creeps, Upstairs