Famous quotes containing the words bad and/or beat:
“The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I’ve fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody’s going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I’m crazy or I keep getting better.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)