Beat Quotes - page 3

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. (Christian Lous Lange)
The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other,... but to beeach other. View quote
Christopher McDougall
I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind. View quote
Martina Hingis
When he said we were trying to make a fool out of him, I could only say that the Creator had beat us to it. View quote
Ilka Chase
But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat. View quote
Alan Vega
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold. View quote
Branford Marsalis
There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her. View quote
Barry McGuire
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down. View quote
Ethel Waters
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat. View quote
Herschel Walker
I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man. View quote
Ike Turner
As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it. (Leo Durocher)
Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death. View quote
Leo Durocher
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. View quote
Norman Ralph Augustine
The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it. View quote
Patricia Ireland
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track - the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Open platforms and experimental amateurs ... eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. ... Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether. View quote
Cory Doctorow
Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground. You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song? View quote
James Frey
I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. View quote
John Donne
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
the streams buck like rams in a tent whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed shadows of the shepherds. black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. wings brush against flowers. fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar. View quote
Jean Arp
As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
As a man danced so the drums were beaten for him. View quote
Chinua Achebe
John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!' View quote
Jack Kerouac