Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Pacino

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Akio Morita

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

Arianna Huffington

That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe.

Demetri Martin

Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks.

Anais Nin

It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test yout limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.

Anne Lamott

by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

Don DeLillo

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

Dane Cook

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.

Dane Cook

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'

Chuck Yeager

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.

Robert Morgan

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

Joe Perry

The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant’s existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. The ceaseless activity of their own inherent nature makes these stages moments of an organic unity, where they not merely do not contradict one another, but where one is as necessary as the other; and constitutes thereby the life of the whole.

Louis Auchincloss

Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

Joe Lieberman

Let us break through some of the inhibitions that have existed to talk together across the flimsy lines of separation of faith, to talk together, to study together, to pray together, and ultimately to sing together His Holy name.

Horace

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

Florence Nightingale

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.

Chris Matthews

The overall campaign launch is designed to break through the clutter and reach out to consumers. At the end of the day, consumers are the ones who benefit from the convenience and value never before seen in a free checking account.

Gelsey Kirkland

You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.

Jay Haas

I have been very, very consistent. But at the same time I kept kind of hitting my head on the ceiling and I couldn't break through.

Ilya Ehrenburg

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He

It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention.

Mark Tobey

Problems are an important part of maturing--meet them straight on. Work them out. It's like the chick in the egg. It has to break through the eggshell on its own. That's how it gains its first strength. If you break the shell for the chick, you end up with a puny little runt.

Oswald Chambers

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

Martin Fleischmann

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.

R. D. Laing

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

R. Buckminster Fuller

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

John Milton

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

Melissa Marr

Love can give a person strength to break through glamours and magicks.

Marat Safin

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

Joseph Addison

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.