Famous quotes containing the words beating, hard and/or mode:
“Monte Beragon: When Im close to you like this, theres 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 schoolboys.
Mildred Pierce: Is it? I thought it was mine.”
—Ranald MacDougall (19151973)
“It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.”
—Pierre Corneille (16061684)
“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 (19191983)