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2656 Beat quotes by 1824 unique authors

These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk… — Aravind Adiga
I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you had to take… — Janet Fitch
Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been,… — Anne Rice
What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat… — Ken Kesey
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we… — Neil Gaiman
Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old,… — Orson Scott Card
I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the… — Janet Fitch
I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio… — Aravind Adiga
Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it… — Terry Pratchett
The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian… — Fritz Leiber
I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat! — Emily Bronte
Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible. — Rebecca Solnit
Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating. — Tom Spanbauer
She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He looked at her. 'In order to finish, I'll have to have defeated six Infected, Dusk, and Vengeous himself.' Yeah. So?' The Infected I can… — Derek Landy
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest… — Robert Frost
You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and… — Cormac McCarthy
A cold blast hit him and he laughed at the sting as he stepped outside, surveyed the night sky, and drank deeply. Such a good… — J R Ward
Wow." I hadn't thought Dimitri could be any cooler, but I was wrong. "You beat up your dad. I mean, that's really horrible...what happened. But,… — Richelle Mead
Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. “Feel that?” His throat worked… — Cheyenne McCray
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old… — William Faulkner
I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears,… — Denis Johnson
Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing… — George Carlin

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