Mysterious Creatures Quotes

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.

Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.

No one ever explained the octopuses.

You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them across the long familiar ground that in that moment seems so glorious, so charged with beauty, strange. In their jaws you are carried so effortlessly, with such great care that you think it will never end, you long for it not to end, and then you wake and know that, indeed, they have not brought you back.

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.

Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

There is something about dolphins. It is difficult to put into words.

I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket.

There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They must think we're so weird.

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

I wonder if Chupacabras are... baby Mothmen?

I've seen UFOs, and Loch Ness - I've been to Loch Ness a few times looking for Nessie, and that's also a beautiful place to be.

Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.

The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits.