Beats Quotes - Page 37

• Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

  David Brooks

  Unexpected, Film, Take Me

  "Director David Brooks ATM Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

  Jeremy Piven

  Running, Long, Tough

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.

  Martial

  Dinner, Too Much, Causes

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.359

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• It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

  Plautus

  Speech, Way, Should

  "Mercator". Play by Plautus, Act III, Scene 4,

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• Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Heart, Dark

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.46

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• Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Speech, Scandal, Used

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• There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class they really beat up.

  Jay Leno

  Money, Doors, Class

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• Don't argue! You cannot win, you cannot beat a woman in a arguement. It's impossble you will not win. Cause men, we are handicapped when it comes to arguing cause we have a need to make sense

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into the wall of our dream / till some other door opens. / But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment, / is spent in one beat / of the darkness, / and falls at our feet, cast off / as the day stirs and sails away with us.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dream, Wall, Fall

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• Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?

  Joe Kapp

  Sports, Morning, Sweat

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• Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him

  Charles Barkley

  Fans, Hell

  "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, edition.cnn.com. November 22, 2004.

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• The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.

  Coventry Patmore

  Wings, Midges, Thousand

  Coventry Patmore (1906). “Poems: The unknown eros, Amelia, etc”

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• When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

  George Cukor

  Perseverance, Cutting, Goes On

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• We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself re-creates them. They are the marks of unity in variety; and in the instant when the mind seizes this for itself, in art or in science, the heart misses a beat.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Discovery, Missing

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fall, Night, Silence

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• Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

  George Brett

  Winning, Yankees, Years

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• Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.

  Dizzy Dean

  Breakfast, Advertising, Bourbon

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• One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.

  Daniel Ortega

  Baseball, Play, Hands

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• For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Past, Challenges, Mind

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• The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

  Audre Lorde

  Games, House, May

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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• The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of affairs from Penobscot to Honolulu turn each morning to find how beats the pulse of prosperity and enterprise.

  Charles A. Beard

  Morning, New York, Men

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• When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a coach who has stirred up a fuss about the color and then beat us.

  Hayden Fry

  Wall, Color, Games

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• When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.

  Mickey Hart

  Feelings, Different, Body

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• We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Giving, Process, Whole

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• For me, there's nothing that beats playing. When I'm not playing, I'll watch games on the television, watch stuff on You-Tube, everything. I just live for football, love watching great players.

  Jermain Defoe

  Football, Player, Games

  "Tottenham's Jermain Defoe eyes 'great feeling' of being just 19th man to score 20 goals for England" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2013.

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