Beat Quotes

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.

I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.

Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.

People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups.