Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is all about breaking the tyranny of distance.

Nicole Kidman

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

He's not here right now and that breaks my heart. But he lives in all of us ? that's what I like to believe.

He's got a few good breaks over his career. So you know what? Darn. It's golf.

John Gay

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

He's impressed everybody. He locates his fastball and his breaking ball is plus. He's very quiet, it's tough to get a 'Hi' out of him, but he seems like he's on a mission. He should be.

I climbed the roofs at break of day;/ Sun-smitten Alps before me lay.

Julie Warner

I chose not to go home and struggle with the New York scene. My size sort of locked me out. I was too short for the stage. I would have been doing character roles, so I went to Los Angeles. There is a lot more happening out there. I also felt it was important to break away from my family.

I call it indoctrination. Our job is to shore them up. It's not like the military, where you break them down.

I can sleep at night knowing that for the last two years I gave everything I had for the ski jumping movement in my country. I have dedicated myself more than I thought I could and ended up working 100-hour weeks desperately doing any and everything I could do to break through -- all with a tiny budget and no support staff. When I realized that my aspirations and expectations were higher than the reality of our situation, I knew I had to retire.

I can see the hand while all that is going on. And he is telling me he can't find a (new) break. I'm telling him where the break is, and he's telling me he doesn't see a break.

I don't like to say one meet can make or break the season. But this meet could decide how we finish the season.

I don't like to keep making excuses, but he struggled on the sticky ground. We'll give him a break and start working back towards Cheltenham.

I don't like the word lucky, but we got a break when they fumbled on the 1 ... they would have gone up two scores.

Ellen Hopkins

Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout

Joe Bob Briggs

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

John Hughes

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

John Ortberg

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

John Dewey

Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love's little bow Had laid time low.

Joan Rivers

Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

Jimmy Fallon

According to a new poll, Republicans are more likely to have a doughnut for breakfast, while Democrats prefer to eat bagels and croissants. While Independents are that annoying friend who's still looking at the menu after 15 minutes.

George A. Romero

Everybody knows the rules, even though some break those rules.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant’s existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. The ceaseless activity of their own inherent nature makes these stages moments of an organic unity, where they not merely do not contradict one another, but where one is as necessary as the other; and constitutes thereby the life of the whole.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-giving warmth and light. Without the sun, there could be no life on this planet; it would be forever barren, cold, and dark.

The losses we have had this year have been a lesson for us. We started winning some games over Spring Break after we sat down and had a team meeting. Nothing has changed on our end, I still think we will win our conference.

The long-term question is how many of these successes you can have, and at what pace, ... It wouldn't surprise me at all if they don't come in a steady stream. We may be experiencing one of those paradigm breaks right now in which we settle down to a lower need for information technology.

The main thing I do is tell them how my last day with Jaime went. We had breakfast together just like any other day. We had no clue that in six hours our lives would change forever.

The local governments should be putting more resources into this. They should be raising taxes, whatever they have to do to deal with people who are breaking the laws of this land. I can tell you this for a fact that they would come up with the money if they knew specifically it would go to house these individuals or to provide more of this service.

The list of human errors goes on and on. Sensitive information that someone has left someplace is just as significant a problem as someone breaking into your system to get that information.

The least important issue today is my resignation. The real issue is the lives of Palestinians and Israelis, breaking the vicious cycle and reviving the peace process and putting it back on track.

James Taylor

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

James Laughlin

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.