Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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.

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.

Nicole Appleton

Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time.

Katee Sackhoff

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

Benny Blanco

Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff.

Tika Sumpter

I love good beats and good lyrics. I'm pretty open.

Quincy Jones

Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.

The Dark Side of the Force could be alcoholism or a guy who beats his wife. Luke saves his father, and Darth has that transformation and realizes the love of his son is stronger than anything.

Tom Selleck

I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.

Bernie Siegel

I use music in the operating room to help create a healing environment for patients and staff. There is a reason that certain heart rates are healthy and certain beats of music heal and relax us.

Rachel Nichols

Who cares if your outfit is black and you're sporting a brown belt? Wear it, rock it, love it - and others will, too. Nothing beats a belt.

Ann Voskamp

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

Deborah Moggach

Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.

Ariana Grande

I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.

Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.

Common

It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest experiences I've had.

Elle Macpherson

My favorite body part is my heart. Nothing beats loving and being loved.

Billy Collins

Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.

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.

Abbie Cornish

I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

Christine Elise

There are a few images in 'Exorcist 3' that scared me - people crawling on ceilings, etc. - but nothing beats the original. Even the book scared me to death.

This sure is a long cry from the Big Two and the Little Eight, I can tell you that. I guess maybe the only problem is on the national scope everybody beats everybody up and you still have a bunch of good football teams, but the records don't reflect it.

This sure beats the heck out of our last time down here. We're going to have a party this time, folks.

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

Jacques Chirac

Today the heart of every French man and every French woman beats in unison with those of their brothers and sisters in Martinique,

G-Eazy

When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.

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