Rushing Beat

Famous quotes containing the words rushing and/or beat:

    “The rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander’s soul.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “That most ingenious paradox!
    We’ve quips and quibbles heard in flocks,
    But none to beat that paradox!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)