Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast. – Bob Kerrey
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it. – George MacDonald
I’m admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I’m definitely an overall picture thinker. – David Cook
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.’ – Karl Kraus
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale. – Paul Di Filippo
Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks. – Tina Brown
This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast’s belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast’s belly. – Thomas Malory
In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity. That seemed to be the nature of the beast. The biographical notes on the dustjackets of the novels were terrific. – Tom Wolfe
Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man? – W. L. George
The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden’s ‘Number of the Beast’ album. – Victor LaValle
