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Quotes About Beat

When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop beat.
~ Michael Connelly
Subjectivity needs movement, directional vectors, ritournelles, rhythms and refrains that beat time to carry it along.
~ Félix Guattari
If the heart could think it would stop beating.
~ Fernando Pessoa
If she hears anything, it's tambourines, and nobody can march to them. You can't do anything but dance to tambourines, and the likes of us will never catch the rhythm.
~ Ferrol Sams
Who is Fox?, I asked. Policeman Fox is the third of us, said the Sergeant, but we never see him or hear tell of him at because he is always on his beat and never off it and he signs the book in the middle of the night when even a badger is asleep. He is as mad as a hare, he never interrogates the public and he is always taking notes.
~ Flann O'Brien
I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.
~ Matthew McConaughey
My attitude is good because I'm a fierce competitor and I have all the confidence in the world that I can beat everybody else. That's my attitude.
~ Justin Thomas
I want to fight among the elite and beat fighters in the elite.
~ Luke Campbell
I love rap lyrics, I love hearing people rap, I love molding a thought or idea into the shape that fits on a rap beat.
~ Aesop Rock
As far as hip hop, I ain't even gonna front, it was 'Rapper's Delight.' That was the first thing I heard where I was like, 'Whoa.' You take that beat and do something over it. I started collecting records after that, old records.
~ Madlib
New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people.
~ Mary Steenburgen
You put the pressure on this guy. You test his conditioning. You test the cardio. You test the heart, the will. That's how you beat RDA.
~ Tony Ferguson
A universal beauty clothes the world, And one heart seems to beat for all mankind!
~ Robert Montgomery
He said that some nights he heard the tom-tom beat of his passion, but he didn't know for sure whether it was really the beat of his passion or of his youth slipping through his fingers, maybe, he added, it's just the beat of poetry, the beat that comes to us all without exception at some mysterious hour, easily missed but absolutely free.
~ Roberto Bolano
A kind of India happens everywhere, that's the truth too; everywhere is terrible and wonder-filled and overwhelming if you open your sense to the actual's pulsating beat.
~ Salman Rushdie
Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.
~ Romeo Santos
La generación Beat es sobre todo un movimiento espiritual.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Folks, winning means uniting America, not sowing seeds of division and anger and hate. We got to beat Donald Trump, and we will, but we can't become like him.
~ Joe Biden
For him to claim now that he'd dashed off a spec script brilliant enough to win him a fat Hollywood contract did not merely strain Credulity; it beat the crap out of Credulity and sent Credulity's next of kin scurrying to its bedside.
~ Joe Keenan
When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness
~ Deepak Chopra
everyone clapped, in metronomic spasms.
~ Edmund Crispin
Tom, Tom, the piper's son,Stole a pig, and away he run;The pig was eat, and Tom was beat,And Tom went howling down the street.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Joseph Wambaugh did not invent the police novel, but no one had seen anything like 'The New Centurions' when it was published in 1971. Here was a working, living, breathing cop with a decade of experience on the beat.
~ Sarah Weinman
The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.
~ David Johansen