#beast

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

— Norman Mailer

#culture #huge #risks #totalitarian #without

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#any #beast #boils #corruption #dante

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. ↗

— Ouida

#heart #him #hope #make #man

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. ↗

— Ovid

#beasts #becomes #belongs #fair #ferocious

It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I've lived there. It's an entirely different beast. ↗

— Liz Phair

#different #does #entirely #gather #hassles

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#beasts #does #every #give #his

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

— Brad Pitt

#away #beast #emphasis #get #instead

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#beauty #boots #dancing #day #did

I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#available #beast #closest #cultures #earth