Beats Quotes - Page 22

• Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stars, Flames, Soldier

  Anne McCaffrey (2016). “Dragonsong”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like the Parthenon crashing down. Not this ordinary, everyday kind of quiet...He closed his eyes...And still it was quiet, this falling apart of his life, as silent as the last beat of an old man's heart. A quiet, echoing thud, and then...nothing.

  Kristin Hannah

  Fall, Heart, Eye

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• It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

  David Henry Hwang

  Writing, Heart, Stories

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• All boxing experts told Helenius is the next world champion! Chisora beat him.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Boxing, Champion

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• Nobody can beat the Klitschko brothers. That's why it's boring.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Brother, Motivation, Fighter

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• This fight should be dubbed, 'No Excuses.' If Carl Froch beats me, there won't be any excuses. I beat Carl Froch, there shouldn't be any excuses. No judges, no referees, no nothing. May the best man win.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighting, Winning

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• I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

  Marion Jones

  Running, Failure, Thinking

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• My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: It can't be done.

  John Scarne

  Player, Thinking, Gambling

  John Scarne (1961). “Complete guide to gambling”

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• They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Wall, Afterlife, Six

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• Ric Flair, you once called me a woman. Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman?

  Roddy Piper

  Wrestling, Wwe, Doe

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• Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beautiful, Fall, Health

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.420

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• I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet
  I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

  Eminem

  Real, Air, Hip Hop

  Song: Bad Meets Evil part II, Album: The Slim Shady LP, 1999

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• All I need is one mic
  One beat, one stage
  One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page
  Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib
  One god to show me how to do things his son did.

  Nas

  Girl, Son, Gun

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• Nothing beats standing in the middle of the action, with all the data I need at my fingertips

  Betty Liu

  Business, Data, Needs

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• As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.

  Michael Connelly

  Music, Anchors, Bassists

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• Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.

  Margaret Atwood

  Music, Squares, Romance

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

  Billy Crystal

  Art, Way, Comedy

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• The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.

  Howard Cosell

  Goodbye, Thinking, Boxing

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• He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him.

  Angelo Dundee

  Boxing, Way, Found

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• A troubled life beats having no life at all

  Richard M. Cohen

  Disability

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• Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?

  Bob Hope

  Home, Holiday, May

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really.

  Gerard Butler

  Scots, Loses

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• There’s a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I’m always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I don’t want to be skinny. I’m constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don’t beat myself up over it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Self, Always Trying, Example

  "Mindy Kaling Makes Her Vogue Debut, Proudly Tells the Magazine: 'I Don't Want to Be Skinny'" by Zach Johnson, www.eonline.com. March 27, 2014.

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• I think your heart dances to the beat of your own drum, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.

  Isla Fisher

  Heart, Thinking

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• I think I'd be a good pimp cuz I'd never beat my ho's.

  Scott Caan

  Thinking, Pimp, Cuz

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