Famous Quotes & Sayings

She was instrumental in breaking their full-court pressure. It was a rugged game and a major defensive battle.

Dennis Christopher

Everybody cheats, I just didn't know.

I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems.

To be told at the last minute that he had to leave was tough for him and it was tough for us to see his emotions. He's a tough guy but he could not help breaking down.

Isaac Brock

I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'

Taylor Mali

Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.

Imelda May

You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

Cheech Marin

My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.

Ferran Adria

I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.

Lisa Kristine

The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all have human value. That's what my work is about.

Tullian Tchividjian

When everyone in the world spoke the same language, God came down in judgment, breaking the world apart. But at just the right time, he came down again, this time to reconcile that sinful world to himself.

William Forsythe

I was never a 'bad' kid, but I did get into minor juvenile trouble. Look, I grew up in Brooklyn. This was the '60s, and the neighborhood was rapidly changing and not without its problems. All the kids of the neighborhood 'did their thing,' breaking windows and the like. I was no different.

Felix Baumgartner

Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.

Allen West

I taught high school for one year in Deerfield Beach, Fla., and in the end, it was such an enjoyable experience breaking up fights daily, that I decided to return to the combat zone of Afghanistan.

Dave Gibbons

One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.

The project is hitting on all cylinders. The icy waters of the commute are finally going to be breaking up.

I can't write about rich people having relationship problems and breaking up in New York. I don't know that world of Terrence McNally. I knew I had to write people who talk the way I talk. And they talked very different than Terrence McNally.

Taryn Manning

When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.

Jennifer Saunders

I think when Madonna did sexy stuff, she looked more in control. And I think it looked more like she was breaking boundaries. Today, it feels like it's pandering to everything that's wrong, and I don't think it's nice, especially for young girls.

Elliott Sadler

I think when a team is found guilty of breaking the rules, the team should also lose points.

Terry Branstad

Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade.

We had some miscommunication on their first goal but other than that I thought we made some plays but just couldn't finish anything off. They pressured us in our own end and we had trouble breaking out and getting anything set up on offense. But credit to them. They're a great skating team.

Sun Tzu

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

With one of the breaking balls, backdoor, I thought I had him, ... It was borderline. I guess you don't get those calls. In a perfect world, I'd like to have those pitches. But they can't call them every time. They're not going to. There's no use crying over it.

We will have that time to continue our planning process and get to the point where we're very close to breaking ground.

We've just tried to hammer into them, just trying to make sure they stay down with everything - breaking balls, fastballs. Let's miss down and in and out instead of up and over the plate.

We had something going on in the fifth, it looked like we had a chance to get back in the game, but they cut the inning off. We took some good at-bats off him, we created some opportunity for ourselves ... but from watching him, he's got a crisp fastball and his breaking ball also is very sharp.

I may have the 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' soundtrack, which I've been told is embarrassing, but come on, there are some good songs on there.

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.

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.

Diane von Furstenberg

I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do is you tell them the truth of why you are breaking up with them, and after that, you somehow compensate with other things. If you have loved someone, I think that somehow they should always be a part of your life. I really do.

Ben Horowitz

Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.

Barry Eisler

I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.