Drumbeat 1 Quotes

#1. I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news ... it's become a mental recession. We don't have measured negative growth. That's a fact, that's not a commentary.

Phil Gramm

#2. The Earth spins once a day. It goes around the sun once a year. The moon goes round the earth every 28 days. Your heart beats in a rhythm particular only to you. Everything has its drumbeat and everything contributes to the dance. You've just got to know when to lead and when to follow.

William Meikle

#3. The reservation doesn't sing anymore but the songs still hang in the air. Every molecule waits for a drumbeat; every element dreams lyrics. Today I am walking between water, two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen, and the energy expelled is named Forgiveness.

Sherman Alexie

#4. My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.

Pedro Martinez

#5. The world revolves like ancient women, gathering fuel in vacant lots.

T. S. Eliot

#6. It wasn't a passing shower but a steady drumbeat of water, the kind of rain that settles in, puts its feet up and makes it clear that it's not going to leave.

Benedict Jacka

#7. Her life these days held a constant underlying drumbeat of worry.

Jojo Moyes

#8. Soon the mercilessly even drumbeat fill'd the Day, replacing the accustom'd rhythms of country People with the controlling Pulse of military Clock-Time, announcing that all events would now occur at the army's Pleasure, upon the army's schedule.

Thomas Pynchon

#9. Most days Lily is the steady drumbeat. The rhythm of my heart. The repeating melody of the music in my head. But not today.

Emily McKay

#10. Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Kim Cattrall

#11. The same song can have drastically different feels and personalities just by changing some minor things. A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.

Matt Berninger

#12. He kissed me with color, with drumbeat, and a surgeon's precision. He kissed me with who he was, the sum of his life - and it was all encompassing. I wondered what I kissed him with since I was only broken parts.

Tarryn Fisher

#13. Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

Laini Taylor

#14. It takes hard blows to raise a drumbeat but only one soft touch to raise a heartbeat

Agona Apell

#15. A woman's voice ululated on the sound system, somewhere between an Islamic call to prayer and orgasm with a drumbeat.

James S.A. Corey

#16. A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram.

Stephen Shore

#17. Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the platform for us, being that we all kind of come from that - it's all beats.

Q-Tip

#18. History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only with books but with ceremonies. Yet a real event read about in a newspaper is not always more important than a fictional one in a novel or play or poem.

Christopher Bram

#19. I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.

Paula Poundstone

#20. So I think that life is sort of like a drumbeat. It has a rhythm and sometimes it's fast and sometimes it's slower, and maybe what's happening is this drumbeat is just accelerating and it's gotten to the point where I can't hear between the beats anymore and it's just a hum.

Steven Soderbergh

#21. The silence was suddenly too much. He hit the CD button on the car's radio. Brian Jones's sitar riff opened for Charlie Watts tribal-like drumbeat thundering from the speakers. Keith Richards' jangly guitar joined in, followed by Mick singing about seeing a red door that he wanted to paint black.

Glenn Rolfe

#22. There are those that want freedom from individual responsibility, and then there are those that want individual liberty. "Freedom" and "liberty" no longer mean what they used to. A desire for dependence has been made fashionably desirable.

A.E. Samaan

#23. I could be the drumbeat in your chest like madness before a storm swirling restlessly.

Moonshine Noire

#24. What human beings did: they tried and failed and failed again, and they kept failing until either they got it right at last or time ran out and they had to settle for what they had.

John Connolly

#25. We can choose the type of thoughts we repeat in our mind. Nothing can force us to pick any memory, circumstance or relationship without our permission.

Hina Hashmi

#26. This album is moments that I haven't done before, like just my voice and drums. What people call a rant - but put it next to just a drumbeat, and it cuts to the level of, like, Run-D.M.C. or KRS-One.

Kanye West

#27. No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner.

Robert Breault

#28. Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.

Alyson Noel

#29. Ideally you do want people to treat you professionally in return, but not everyone necessarily does that.

Henry Cavill

#30. I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...

Ian McEwan

#31. Music
can change the
mood in a
drumbeat.

Lisa Schroeder

#32. I also worry about the incessant drumbeat of self-objectification: the pressure on young women to reduce their worth to their bodies and to see those bodies as a collection of parts that exist for others' pleasure; to continuously monitor their appearance; to perform rather than to feel sensuality.

Peggy Orenstein