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2656 Beat quotes by 1824 unique authors

You was talkin' out of yer head last night, too," chortles Davy. "No one's gonna fancy me. I'm gonna be ugly and no on'es gonna… — L.A. Meyer
If I could make you stay, I would,’ he shouted. ‘If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay,… — James A. Baldwin
Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched,… — C.S. Lewis
I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a… — Bill Bryson
He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it… — Sebastian Faulks
I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly...it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read in one of… — Lauren Oliver
Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds. — Kristin Cashore
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder… — Carl Sagan
She wished she could understand her reaction to him. Why, her heart was pacing a wild beat again. Madelyne dared a quick look up and… — Julie Garwood
Do people in the twenty-first century still dance?" My heart beat thundered in my ears, far louder than the slow music. "Um," I said, barely… — Meg Cabot
Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby.… — Louis Zamperini
If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk...." She… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second. — Louis Sachar
I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would… — Charles Dickens
You are an... animal? A talking animal?" Without missing a beat, Teela said, "Of course not. She's much, much harder to train. — Michelle Sagara
Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh. Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he’d… — Rick Riordan
A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. Seth… — Brandon Mull
My chest expanded and I suddenly wanted to beat on it with my fist. The girl was making me go all caveman." -Marcus Hardy — Abbi Glines
Men shake hands after they beat each other up; we eat chocolate. — Nora Roberts
I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat.… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It’s just life. You can’t beat life. — Alice Munro
It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong clothes and those beat-up sneakers. It wasn't about… — Kami Garcia

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