Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demetri Martin

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

Alanis Morissette

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.

Kevin Rose

One of the things that's been crazy for us has been the speed at which news can break on Digg, because it's powered by a mass of humans versus a machine that has to go out and crawl and find the information and then determine its relevance mathematically.

Barry Levinson

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

Brittany Murphy

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

We live in a society today where live breaking news is a common occurrence and people want to know what's going on right now.

Patty Schnyder

When I'm ready, I would like to start serving. I know she does it and it's her way, but I think on the serve, you should go with the pace of the server. She needs the time, I guess. I don't think it's really to break my rhythm or something, it's just that she needs it.

We use humor and metaphors to break through the clutter. We strive for intelligent/clever humor, with hopes of generating more than a chuckle.

Thomas Bangalter

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

Thom Mayne

There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has to do with transparency and exposing social connectivity and breaking down the Balkanization that happens departmentally.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

As a self-employed person, the idea of a break is completely foreign to me. If I completely switch off for any period of time, I know I'm going to pay for it several times over. For me, it's a lot better and easier to stay in touch and know what's going on seven days a week than to switch off.

Azim Premji

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

Thomas Heatherwick

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.

Bud Selig

We're just trying to be consistent. The record is owned by Hank Aaron. There will be plenty of acknowledgments by the media when he passes Ruth, but when a man breaks a record, we'll honor that.

Boris Johnson

We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

Boris Pasternak

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

We have historic crude-oil inventories and close to record prices, which is a break from the normal pattern. You would expect high inventories to lead to low prices but that's not the case. There are obviously other things at work.

We're looking to see what players can help us during the season. Plus the kids like it because it breaks the monotony of practice.

We're grinding the trees first to try and break down into finer pieces, so we can extract the needles.

We're gonna have to do something, I don't know what it is. We can't find that break right now, and it's very frustrating.

This raises the odds that manufacturing payrolls may finally break through on Friday and register a gain.

Gary Pruitt

This puts us back in the breaking news business and back into the continuous news mode.

This puts in place a number of consumer protections that give people an opportunity to take a break from the treadmill of debt they get locked into with payday loans.

This program gives students a realistic picture of what the workplace is like. Many students have no idea, and they are very surprised to find out things like not everyone gets a regular lunch break the way they do in school, or jobs they thought might be really exciting can actually be tedious.

Chris Bryant

This win is big because on spring break we have had a history of not playing well. I told them this week, though, that we need to win our spring break games.

There are very few African-American nuclear operators. It's important to me to break the stereotypes of what we can or can't do.

Connie Sellecca

Your allegiance is with your spouse; you cannot break that by showing allegiance to your ex-spouse.

Ashlee Simpson

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Even a meaningless life may contain many good breakfasts.

What the NFL and Reebok wanted was to find some company that was very reliable ... and has world-class, top-notch machines that will not break down.

What went through my mind was, maybe I can break Lenny Dawson's ribs and he won't be able to play next week. Maybe they'll lose and we'll be back in first place.

Miley Cyrus

It's hard to find a good guy... all girls know that guys don't think with their brains.

There is a real focus on how to break through a lot of this frustration that people talk about. This should be fun. We should all be having a wonderful time re-creating our public realm.