As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The kingdom of birds is divided into two departments - birds and House Sparrows. House Sparrows are not real birds - they… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitated to me… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Why is everyone calling me Consort?" "Jim designated you as Consort in official papers. You don't want to be called Mate, calling… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The mindset of legislating for the betterment of society guarantees the growth of the beast. ... Politicians see government as a solution… — R. Lee Wrights Copy Share Image
It was Barry Diller's idea to start 'The Daily Beast,' and he has turned out to be the best partner I've ever… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a first contact thing and I vaguely knew I wanted it to be in a beating the beast… — Lindsay Ellis Copy Share Image
If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for. — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes… — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
