Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Wortley Montagu

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

Martha Beck

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you

Marion Jones

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

Oswald Chambers

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

Pat Conroy

...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ranges, and all words become the dissolving snow that feeds your mountain streams forever. The language locks itself in the icy slopes of our own high passes, and it is up to us, the writers, to melt the glaciers within us. When these glaciers break off, we get to call them novels, the changelings of our burning spirits, our life's work.

Joe Carnahan

When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle.

Jodi Picoult

I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.

John Grisham

I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.

John Green

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

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.

Mario Monti

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

Marilyn Monroe

I believe that everything happens for a reason.

Marilyn Monroe

Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.

Nicole Richie

I know there are rumours concerning my 'breakup' with Brody Jenner. The truth is, we were never really together. We hung out, and he's a nice guy, but my heart was never in it. Anything further is just a cry for publicity.

Nicki Minaj

Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.

Nicki Minaj

I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told

Nicki Minaj

Said that I was your all and I believed you. That's why it hurts to the core I gotta leave you.

Nicki Minaj

I have given my all Catch me catch me I think I'm gonna fall

Nicki Minaj

I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small

Nick Hornby

I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.

Matt Cameron

When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.

Nicholas Sparks

Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.

Nicholas Sparks

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.

Nicholas Sparks

Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.

Ne-Yo

This is ridiculous. It's been months and for some reason I just can't get over us. I'm stronger than this. Enough is enough; no more walking around with my head down, I'm so over being blue crying over you.

Mitch Hedberg

Well, that's a 'fresher'. I'm going on break.

Mitch Hedberg

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.

Luke Wilson

To me it comes naturally, the peaks and valleys, sadness with happiness. I've definitely had periods, maybe, where I haven't been happy. Whether it's from a breakup or the good, old-fashioned blues - but I wouldn't say clinically depressed.

Lucinda Williams

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

Marilyn Monroe

I said pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

Marilyn Monroe

No girl should ever forget that she doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her.

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.