#beat

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

#beatles #bought #day #electric #electric guitar

I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#down #i #lifted #like #need

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. ↗

— David Hume

#beaten #heights #popularity #power #road

That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do? ↗

— Charlie Hunter

#audience #beat #before #drum #drummer

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#begins #draw #get #glamorous #keeps

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#bones #dead #habit #living #old

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#beat #chamber #consistent #constituents #corruption

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one. ↗

— John Lennon

#connection #dreamers #dreaming #dreams #hope

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#inspirational #live #love #music #equality

I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though." "That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something." I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear. "Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you." I laugh a little. "Then you should know better." "Fine," he says. "Then I love you. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#divergent #humor #love #tobias #humor