Downbeat Quotes

#1. I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending.

Marian Keyes

#2. Oh, goddamn," said Minty Fresh (damn on the downbeat, with pain and sustain). "Goddamn, my hood and grille are all fucked up. Goddamn. I will tolerate the rising of darkness to cover the world, but you do not fuck with my ride.

Christopher Moore

#3. My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

James Brown

#4. When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.

Joan Crawford

#5. I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

Loretta Young

#6. From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would
be.

Jamie A. Hughes

#7. Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

A.O. Scott

#8. It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

Thomas Jane

#9. To make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,

Thomas Aquinas

#10. Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.

Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

#11. If I knew this was what I was gonna get out of playing ball, I would have picked it up years ago.

Eve Jagger

#12. But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

Joan D. Vinge

#13. There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

George Will

#14. Bible Christianity is what I love ... a Christianity practical and pure, which teaches holiness, humility, repentance and faith in Christ; and which after summing up all the Evangelical graces, declares that the greatest of these is charity .

Hannah More

#15. I plan on doing nothing but give you the greatest pleasure you've ever had. I want to take you to a place of pure sexual satisfaction, Isabella. Once I take you to the edge of insanity, you will come harder than you ever have.

Mia Villano

#16. Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

Drake

#17. I had a cigar in my mouth and whiskey on my breath. I felt like money. I looked like money.

Charles Bukowski

#18. Your mother doesn't make mistakes." I hear her blow out the smoke. "Baby, I know what I'm doing.

Holly Black