Beat Quotes
2656 Beat quotes by 1824 unique authors
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Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc…
— Christopher Moore
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Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!
— Lewis Carroll
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A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.
— Charles Bukowski
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ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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You didn't beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
— Simon Cowell
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As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
— William Carlos Williams
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Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?
— Goldie Hawn
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Why break the heart that never beat from love?
— Mervyn Peake
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Driving to class with him. All I could think about was that it had been three days since I'd touched his face AND HE SEEMED…
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children…
— Debra Ginsberg
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Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear.…
— Joe Hill
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Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the…
— Louisa May Alcott
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At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into…
— Kate DiCamillo
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You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.
— Djuna Barnes
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I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition…
— George A. Sheehan
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here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Babe,' Ranger said. 'Do something with her.' And he disconnected. I called Ranger back. 'No,' I said. 'And I need information on Jelly Kantner. His…
— Janet Evanovich
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The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. And once he's in, he can't go…
— Aimee Mann
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whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly…
— Charles Bukowski
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You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the…
— Unknown Author
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I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, "My dad can beat up your dad." I'd say…
— Bill Hicks
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Mahoney: "Thirty-seven seconds. Great, well done; now we wait." Mr. Magorium: "No, we breathe, we pulse, we regenerate. our hearts beat, our minds create, our…
— Suzanne Weyn
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