Axel Munthe Quotes

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

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• Growing up, my favorite pass-rusher was Julius Peppers. He was just a beast.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• You can't go into the cage and not love it, and you can't go in there unprepared. You have to prepare.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Prepare
  • Cage
  • Unprepared

• When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • American
  • Song
  • Honest

• Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Words
  • Burden
  • Lit

• Yes I’m a beast and I feast when I conquer!

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Beast
  • Conquer

• I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!

  

  Donald Glover
  • Empty
  • Glasses
  • Sitting

• Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. "I bet I could convince you if I could get through these bars. . . ." "You'd get arrested all over again." "Well, you're just that tempting. Jailbait." He kissed her fingers, which made her shiver all over; his lips lingered warm on her skin, reminding her of what it felt like to be alone with him, in that timeless...

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Long
  • Alone
  • Moment

• One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • People
  • Different
  • Trouble

• I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Heart
  • Band
  • Cage

• If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Bars
  • Raises
  • Raising The Bar

• I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Business
  • Difficult
  • Celebrity

• We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Children
  • Lost

• You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Sun
  • Cage
  • Eagle

• A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Bird
  • Cage

• I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

  

  George Clooney
  • Guy
  • Looks
  • Said

• The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

  

  Aristotle
  • God
  • Beast
  • Essentially

• Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Men
  • Food
  • Beast

• 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.

  

  Steve Chabot
  • Money
  • Washington
  • Beast

• If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • People
  • Love
  • Happy

• I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too.

  

  William Hung
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Fun

• What's great is that there are a lot of brands - like Thom Browne, Michael Bastian, and Rag & Bone - but they're all doing their own thing. That's what's important: to remain true to your own DNA.

  

  Simon Spurr
  • True
  • Remain
  • Brands

• One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those we love, or to those who love us, and to those who need us to be brave, or content, or even happy enough to allow them not to worry about us. So we must refrain from giving pain, as our last gift to our fellows.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Life
  • End
  • Honest

• The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Beast
  • Bars
  • Cage