Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry King

But hark! My pulse like a soft drum / Beats my approach, tells thee I come.

There are no words to describe. It beats going to Buffalo last year in December. This year, you can go to San Diego and lay out on the beach. In Arizona, you can sweat it up in the desert.

David Barnes

Kevin would have to wait at least six months to get a British title shot but if he beats Okine it will fast-track him to a British title shot sooner and jump him up to 15th place in the world title ratings.

Alice Munro

It’s just life. You can’t beat life.

Serj Tankian

That's been a strength in some ways, but it's also an understanding of the dynamics of music and the different beats and melodies that wouldn't be common to a non-Armenian.

When you're little and if someone beats you up, you can't wait until the next day so you can fight them again. We look forward to redeem ourselves. It felt good after the way they hit us (in the first game).

Wyclef Jean

When you're in the Caribbean, you're having the best time, you're hearing a lot of beats and rhythms that you don't hear in New York sometimes, 'cause then you come back and it's snowing.

Rick Perlstein

There's a lot of surplus rage from the '60s that was never really worked through publicly. I think a lot of that rage still exists, and I think you see that when John McCain runs a commercial that beats up on Hillary Clinton's earmark for a Woodstock museum.

She said there wasn't much competition, ... So Kaye and I said we don't care who beats her, but one of us better beat her.

O listen to the sounding seaThat beats on the remorseless shore,O listen! for that sound will beWhen our wild hearts shall beat no more.

O listen to the sounding sea That beats on the remorseless shore, O listen! for that sound will be When our wild hearts shall beat no more.

Tasha Smith

Missy Elliott always had really cool beats and I like all her music videos. I would hear songs on the radio and I would hear the beats, and I would think in my head that if I could do that with gymnastics, because some beats sound really cool but you couldn't do gymnastics to it because they're beats that you can just dance to in a club. In gymnastics, you have to be able to breathe and move at the same time.

Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All hallows Eve... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.

John Jones

Ridge View is still the team to beat. They're the two-time defending state champion, and it's yours until somebody beats you.

She's only 5-foot-8, but she plays off the ceiling. She gets up so quick and she beats 6-footers.

John Cena

I'm a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain't never been an MC, who ain't never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that's MC suicide.

Travie McCoy

I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were actually beats that I made.

Jessica Sanchez

I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.

It gets harder to leave the kids every year, but at the same time it beats working for a living. I'm glad to see the guys again. All the bullpen is already here. We'll play a little catch and shake loose some of the weariness.

Any time you get quality teams playing each other, usually the team that loses is the team that beats themselves. If we can control what we have control of, and that's staying with our plan and executing the way we should, then we're going to be OK.

Alan Colmes

sure beats being plucked off the top of your home by a helicopter.

I told them that the road to the GLVC title goes through Quincy. They're the defending champions until someone beats them.

The fear of a stall is that it makes the storm surge much larger, because it sits there and pushes water up on the coast for a long time. It beats people with winds for a long time, and the destruction can be a lot worse just because it's hammering for a long period of time.

They lost quite a few seniors (from last year), but when you're a state champ you're still the state champ until somebody beats you. We know it's going to be tough. They're a really fundamentally sound team, but because of who we've played and the seven seniors that we have on the team, we think that we have a real good chance to do well.

They've played a lot of big ballgames, and until somebody beats them, they are the sectional champions from last year.

It's not as nice as a bed, but it certainly beats the cold weather outside.

Everyone says good pitching beats good hitting. That's what we're trying to do.

Oh, there's no question we've talked about this. We can, realistically, still win the district if Warren Central beats Marshall and we beat Warren Central. But our first priority is Graves.

It was one of those days where you wake up and the room is dark, and you say where am I? But it beats sitting home on the couch watching.

Adam McKay

The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.

Expectations for technology have come down so dramatically that when someone beats expectations, it's going to cause great rallies.

Drake Bell

I really like Caravan Palace's electro swing stuff. They incorporate the electronic, but when you see them live, they're all on stage playing live music. They're all playing their instruments. They drop these beats with the DJs that are so incredible.

Bjork

In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.