Beating Hard Mode

Famous quotes containing the words beating, hard and/or mode:

    Monte Beragon: When I’m close to you like this, there’s a sound in the air like the beating of wings. Do you know what that is?
    Mildred Pierce: No, what?
    Monte Beragon: My heart, beating like a schoolboy’s.
    Mildred Pierce: Is it? I thought it was mine.
    Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973)

    It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.
    Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
    Paul Deman (1919–1983)