Who is bite?

Famous quotes containing the word bite:

“God loafs around heaven,
without a shape
but He would like to smoke His cigar
or bite His fingernails
and so forth.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ....”
—Mae West (1892–1980)

“The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)