Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Engvall

My belief is that if we take away that right to bear arms, the only people that are going to have them are... the ones breaking into your house.

There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.

The real problem will be if the drought doesn't break over the winter,

The real mechanism is what this will do to the dollar. It may be the straw that breaks the camel's back should oil prices move up sharply.

Matt Ridley

The reality sunk in that we had no place to live, and we had to find it, ... We had no place for our kids to go to school, and we had to find that. We didn't know about my job, and we had to figure that out. And you're one of a million people trying to do that. It was the moment of feeling like we lost everything and we had to start over. For me, the lowest point was watching my wife come to that realization and break down in tears.

There are many people like us, who come here to work, to try to give our children a better life than we've had. We work, we follow the laws, we stay out of trouble. There are citizens who break more laws than we do. All we want is a chance.

I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.

I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules.

Alan Greenspan

I get so engaged when I have a problem you cannot solve that I just cannot break away from what I am doing - I keep thinking and thinking and cannot stop.

Claude M. Bristol

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

Jim Stafford

We shot it exceptionally well the first half. We made some 3-pointers off the break and kind of got the game going our way.

Denzel Washington

You can’t break me because you didn’t make me.

Sun Tzu

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Gwendoline Christie

I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.

G-Eazy

It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'

Gene Pitney

You have 'listeners' ears' when you're just starting out, and your 'listeners' ears' tell you what will work. You lose those ears later, when you break songs down into production elements too much.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them

If people liked seeing me in loverboy roles, I don't intend to break that.

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.

David James Elliott

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

David Whyte

Poetry is a break for freedom.

Clarence Thomas

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

Clement Freud

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth reporting on. How often do you see headlines like 'General Relativity still governing planetary orbits' or 'Phlogiston theory remains false'? By the time anything is solid science, it is no longer a breaking headline.

Elijah Wood

I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, "Poor thing." I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.

Tim Schafer

After 'Psychonauts,' we could have laid off half our team so that we'd have more money and time to sign 'Brutal Legend.' But doing so would have meant breaking up a team that had just learned how to work well together. And what message would that have sent to our employees? It would say that we're not loyal to them, and that we don't care.

Larry Davis

We came back from the Christmas break and tried to concentrate on playing at a pace we wanted to play at.

We only knew a couple of ghosts were rampaging through Alabama. But we just pushed and pushed for a break, and we forced a break in the case.

We passed the breaking point last night. If we get any more today, we're going to have to give them plastic sheeting and have them camp in between the other tents.

When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.

Hans Zimmer

when (producers) are going, 'This scene really doesn't work and we need some help here,' and you realize what they're saying is you can make or break this movie.

When police officers tried to break up the initial fight, other people tried to prevent them from making arrests. Those people also ended up being arrested.