The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
Ray Bradbury
It was an incredibly honest, unique, specific and personal story of addiction. He lives to feed the beast and it gets him farther away from reality, intimacy and life.To me, it`s not even about gambling. It`s about a man and how he behaves in this pressur...
Philip Seymour Hoffman
[Further talking about Robocop]: "Aside from the action-adventure, the corruption, corporate machinery gone berserk and so on, the heart of all this is a morality tale. It`s like Beauty and the Beast, or the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. It`s a great littl...
Peter Weller
(On leaving his role as Frank Black behind) "Man, it took me a year to get out of that. With effort. The first thing I did was go to Hawaii and get two tattoos. One is a shark, the other dolphins. I felt attacked, and I felt like a beast. It was dark stuf...
Lance Henriksen
You have to starve the Beast. That`s one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it`s going to be spent.
Andreas Scheuerle
When you start the game, you can work your way in. Off the bench, you`ve got to produce (right away) because everyone else is loose. It`s a different beast, but not a bad experience at all.
Marvin Williams
We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn`t and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress o...
Genevieve Gorder
The musical is a kind of beauty-and-the-beast story. It appeals to everyone because it is about an impossible love, which I think many of us have had. The whole framework or design of the show is that you are sucked into this mythical world below the oper...
Cameron Mackintosh
See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.
Antone DeJesus
Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
Hugh Miller
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
Theodore Dreiser