Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Seuss

And he, he himself...the Grinch...carved the roast-beast!

Christopher Moore

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

Annie Lennox

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

Simone Weil

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

Thomas Hobbes

And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will .

B. F. Skinner

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.

Brandon Heath

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.

William Cowper

But the sea-fowl has gone to her nest, / The beast is laid down in his lair.

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.

Susan Egan

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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

Hollywood wants to put a mark -- sort of like a mark of the beast for video content -- that says that this is MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) content, and we want to control what you can do with it.

Lita Ford

He's a physical beast who gets where he wants to get and does what he wants to do. We couldn't do anything with him. We're moving on. I'm not spending too much time on that game.

He's just a strong, hard-nosed kid. He could do certain things -- he's a beast with his Russian tie -- but he didn't know what he was working for, what he was trying to get. He was just going forward. A good wrestler knows where he's going with a move before the move. He's got to try to score. I had to put it in his head (that) you do this, then try to do this.

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.

Ernest Thompson Seton

We and the beasts are kin.

Herman Melville

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

George Herbert

The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.

B. F. Skinner

He (Smith) was a beast in there. He was carrying two and three guys on his back getting offensive rebounds. Craig made them work extremely hard in defending him on the interior. That is what a senior does. He puts you on his back and carries you.

I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.

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.

Paul Stanley

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.

Al Purdy

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.

Ben Wallace

We've been chased for a long time. We know what kind of beast these playoffs are. We will be prepared for everything and we will go into every single game ready to fight for our lives.

Ben Wallace

We've been chased for a long time, so it doesn't change for us. We've still got to come out and do what we do. We've been here before, we know what type of situations we've been in and we know what type of beast the playoffs bring. You've got to be prepared for everything.

Josephine Baker

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.

With a team like Cincinnati, if you get them down you can't let them go on a run. It's like letting the beast run free.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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?