Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Byrne

We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.

David Levithan

this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.

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.

Ang Lee

I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them.

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.

Anais Nin

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

Amanda Seyfried

It changes you a little bit every time you either break someone's heart or get your heart broken.

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?

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.

You can break the speeding laws to get a dying person to the hospital. What the Bush administration did was much broader and systematic ... .

Larry Sabato

You can be sure this will be cited in future years when other Cabinet nominees are not confirmed. Once you break the taboo, it's broken for all time.

Winter break was the perfect opportunity to get to know the team in a different light. We not only built our team on the ice, but off the ice as well.

Winning tonight was big, I think that secured our championship a bit, ... Unless I come out and break next week, I've got it.

Brian Henson

Where we used to just look at the visitor as a whole, now we are breaking it down to families, youth groups, school groups, tourists, tour groups, ... A family is going to be reached differently from a school group.

Who do you think will be more likely to yield to national pressure, Helms or Lott? ... There's only one person who can break the logjam. That's the majority leader.

Rose George

Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.

Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.

We couldn't get that one hit all game. It seemed like we had runners in scoring position in every inning. We couldn't get that hit to break the game open.

We were up 6-2, gave up four goals in the third period, took a 7-6 lead, lost the lead in the last minute and then lost in overtime. But what a difference it was from the first game. We're really close to breaking the ice and getting a victory. I can only think positive.

We were unable to finish and it was such a competitive game that they were able to break through on one of their opportunities and kind of took the momentum after that. And (19) minutes later, they popped in another goal which was right around the time we started to pick it up again.

We were looking for her to break out, too.

Melissa McCarthy

When I was 22, I met with some janky manager, and she told me, 'You're never going to work at this weight.' I think I was a size 6 at the time. There is just this weird thing about how we perceive women in this country. I would love to be a part of breaking that down.

When I think about it, I look back on the frustrating moments that we have had trying to break through. And now that it has happened, it feels really damn good.

Daniel Alfredsson

We couldn't even break out of our own end. We weren't supporting each other at all and we were turning the puck over way too many times.

Larry Hughes

We couldn't even break huddle. We couldn't even discuss practice tomorrow or we had a good game or nothing. He was just talking about winning on TNT, winning on national TV.