Animals Quote by Scott Westerfeld

“Cannot a Beast be tamed?”

— Robin McKinley

“That Little Beast That pretty little beast, a poem, has a mind of its own. Sometimes I want it to crave apples but it…

— Mary Oliver

“Sometimes I felt the bloated Toad, hideous and pampered with the poisonous vapours of the dungeon, dragging his loathsome length along my bosom: Sometimes…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

When you name a beast, sometimes it makes it less bestial.

— Amanda Shires

What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

— Adrienne Rich

“Picture yourself, Jack, a confirmed homebody, a sedentary fellow who finds himself walking in a deep wood. You spot something out of the corner…

— Don DeLillo

“A creature--a frightfully, awful creature--was mere feet from her. Its eyes were enormous, the size of goose eggs and milky white. Its gray, slippery…

— M.L. LeGette

“All the expressions that are possible crossed its face, as if its thoughts were wise and limitless one moment, daft and animal the next.…

— Margo Lanagan

“He was trying to conjure up a succubus." It should be impossible to leer when all you've got is a beak, but the parrot…

— Terry Pratchett

“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.”

— Mary MacLane

“I be one o' the beasties what goes bump in the night!”

— Tim Baer

“Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said, Are innocent and fathomless And when I look at them I see That they are not aware of…

— Stevie Smith