Beast Quotations

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.

There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

The Antichrist is often identified with the second beast in the Book of Revelation that arises from the land, the beast that tries to make everyone worship the power of evil.

Every man has a wild beast within him.

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does not a woman redden all over when she feels her lover's eyes on her? How then should one doubt the mysterious power of one individual over another?

I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

I'm not fit company for man or beast.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

I'm not turning my back on music anytime soon, but it's just a blessing to have options open. A lot of artists just have rap, and that's it. But once rap stops, it's hard to get into that Hollywood circle; it really is. It's a whole 'nother beast that people think they're ready for, but they're really not.

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth

My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

No one said, 'This is the best female rapper.' It's more like, 'Lizzo can really rap.' I think its because I'm not that sexy girl. I'm that beast girl.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again

What it comes down to is, Kiss has always been a beast that has this tendency to run wild, and it needs attention and nurturing. If people are always running off and doing other projects, which has been the case, somebody has to be there for stability.

The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

The natural creativity of the staff morphed 'The Daily Beast' very fast into what has become a newsroom. Aggregation lives on the Cheat Sheet, the video player, and in the breaking news slot in the first big box. The rest is all original, generated by Beast writers and editors.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.

Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be" tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it.

Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

Let's face it, he was a beast in there. He just went in there and challenged them. That's what a senior does, he puts you on his back and carries you.

She was a beast on the boards tonight. She was crashing hard.

She's a hustler, she's a beast on the boards and she can take over a game if she wanted to, but I think right now, she's just putting the energy where we need it.. In our defense and attacking on offense, she can be an unstoppable force.

She is very difficult to defend on the block. She is strong. She is physical. She is aggressive. I thought she really backed us down low. And I thought she was just a beast out there on the glass.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, ''Into how little space a human being can be crushed?'' I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies.

Phenomenal, man, 20 boards is a lot. He had 20 and 20. I've never played with a guy who's done that before. I'm proud of him. He's a beast on the boards.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

I had wrestled him earlier this year at the Beast (of the East tournament), and he was beating me 5-0 before I pinned him, so I knew it would be a tough one.

I did 'Beauty and the Beast' like 780 times. And so there are going to be nights when things go wrong, like the set breaks down or the Beast mistakenly pulls your wig off.

He had a huge impact on this defense. He's a guy who just gets into the backfield and destroys everything. He blows up running plays. He's just a beast once he gets going, and a guy a lot of people don't really know. He's kind of our best-kept secret around here. He definitely doesn't get the attention he deserves, but in a game you definitely better pay attention to number 96.

He's a great player. He definitely doesn't play like a freshman. He's a beast in the post. He's their main component and they try to get the ball to him every time.

He's always been a good, smooth acoustic player, but the electric seemed like an untamed beast for him until this year.

He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

He (Carroll) makes them a whole different beast to defend.

King Kong is not the dominant beast people either expected or hoped for. Crowd pleasers and family movies tend to do well over the holidays.

I wrestled him at the Beast of the East tournament in December. He was beating me 5-0 when I pinned him. It's a hard road to the finals for everybody in this weight class.

I watched him in Cleveland at my last fight. He's tough, strong and fast but I'm up for the challenge. I respect the man but once you've beaten Mike Tyson these guys don't hold any fear for me. Once I've won the title I'd love to get in there with the Beast and take his belt as well.

Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.

That's the way it has been all year. The other team goes to the line 30 times. But that's the nature of the beast with the press.

That's the nature of the beast of our job. How was your day? I won the race, but I broke my shoulder and had to put my horse down.

That's the nature of the beast in this city. There's so much construction happening here, and so many (manufacturing) firms are moving here because of our proximity to other Western states.

Mick playing great guitar helped, ... I sleep downstairs and the studio is upstairs. One night I thought I was hearing this old Muddy Waters track I didn't know, but it turned out to be Mick working on a slide part for Back of my Hand . He's always been a good, smooth acoustic player, but the electric seemed like an untamed beast for him until this year. When I heard him this time I thought, 'My God! The boy's finally got it'.

Tim has been a beast in there for us. He has elevated his game and there has been no stopping the guy.

What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

The beast faith lives on its own dung.

During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Death frees the beast.

The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.

The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.

The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out.

The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.

The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate

We've constructed what we consider a micron-scale analog of an ox, ... These are 'micro-oxen,' a micro-scale beast of burden.