#beat

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#edge #over #probably #pushed #realized

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#age #around #bad #beat #five

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#athletes #beaten #been #could #different

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. ↗

— John Cleese

#another #beat #bunch #going #i

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's! ↗

— Patsy Cline

#childhood #developed #forth #heart #i

We're picking on people we can beat. ↗

— George Clooney

#people #picking

I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#after #all day #any #aware #beatles

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#beat #begins #fails #finish #first

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends. ↗

— Colin Firth

#beatty #cast #could #extraordinary #girlfriends

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. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#allowed #beat #brick #desire #head