There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
Ty Cobb

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Billy Joel

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Billy Joel

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.
James Hetfield

A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.
Thomas Fuller

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.
Michael Landon

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
David Mamet

I'm a fan myself and I'm frustrated just as much as them when we get beat.
Steven Gerrard

Against Juventus we were massive underdogs, so to beat them was fantastic.
Steven Gerrard

No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran.
Sugar Ray Leonard

As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
Leo Durocher

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
Emil Zatopek

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
Margaret Cho

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
Austin O'Malley

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.
Philip Zimbardo

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

I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.
Chris Brown

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
Rupert Murdoch

If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
Vanessa Hudgens