Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Jones

If the consumer gives up here -- if these layoffs lead to a break in confidence and more cutbacks in spending later, we will be on the brink of or perhaps into a recession.

If someone is going to build a $300,000 house, that impact fee is not going to make or break the deal for them.

Bud Selig

He's had a remarkable career. Whatever happens, happens. We're going to let nature take its course. Commissioners don't sit around and say, 'I hope this guy breaks it or not.

Ron Gardenhire

He's got velocity and he has a breaking ball, it just didn't work out for him today. He got beat.

Frank Beamer

When the play breaks down, ... he's dangerous.

Victoria Jackson

We want to break Stanford's streak of nine Pac-10 Championships. We have the experience, talent and depth to win the Pac-10.

Victoria Jackson

We want to break Stanford's streak of nine Pac-10 Championships, ... We have the experience, talent and depth to win the Pac-10.

Adolf Hitler

Germany will never break the peace of its own accord.

Adele

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Adele

I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.

Adele

I let it fall, my heart And as it fell, you rose to claim it, It was dark, and I was sober, Until you kissed my lips and you saved me.

Adele

So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this

Adele

The scars of your love remind me of us they keep me thinking that we almost had it all the scars of your love they leave me breathless I can't help feeling we could have had it all

Adele

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

Adam Rickitt

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

Adam Brody

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

Constantin Stanislavski

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

Damien Rice

Stones taught me to fly, love taught me to lie, life taught me to die, so it's not hard to fall when you flow like a cannonball

West Chicago caught some breaks earlier in the game. I guess in that last inning it was our turn.

Ally Condie

Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle-it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?

Dinaw Mengestu

You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.

Angie Everhart

[Marla, Shar and I] all have had very public breakups, so I think people know they can relate with us in one way or another. And this is one of the few reality shows where they didn't have the cameras right in people's faces. Like when we were sitting around the table talking with the divorced people, the cameras were way back. And we just listened. Sometimes people just need an ear.

Cindy Sheehan

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.

Chuck Yeager

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

Anthony Bourdain

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

Andy Rooney

For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40 +, there is a balding, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year-old waitress.

Andy Warhol

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

Afrika Bambaataa

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

Richard Krajicek

Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.

The deal breaker so far is his insistence on keeping the ball.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.

Alexander Lukashenko

I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like Lukashenko, when I came to power after the breakup of the Soviet Union