Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonah Goldberg

It's the nature of all relationships, really: The straw that breaks the camel's back is rarely the most obvious thing, ... meets the dictionary definition of a crony.

It's a little like a marriage. It's never just one side as to why it breaks up. The question is, can this marriage be saved?

Terry Butcher

It's like groundhog day after last week. We are creating so many chances but not taking them and, hopefully, the breaks will come for us to give a team a hammering.

Josh Beckett

It was fine. I threw 48 pitches and that was about it. The numbers could have been better, but we'll save all the good breaks for the season.

It was really exactly what I've expected. Spring breaks really mess us up since ours falls opposite of everybody else. We had a real good March. Last week was the first time we'd played in three weeks.

It was a real fight. This was a game that either team could have won. This is a gigantic win for us. I feel as though we've gotten no breaks this season, things haven't gone our way. We needed this one.

Marian Gaborik

It was a very big win. We battled toward the end, got some breaks and scored some goals.

Jerry Brown

It's a crazy society now. It's the richest society ever and yet people are overworked. There's more unemployment, more crime, more confusion, more broken marriages. This is a breakdown. Every culture breaks down. Every society breaks down, whether it's Rome, Spain, the British Empire. The people in charge probably didn't get it until they had their heads chopped off.

It's terrible. It's an unfortunate blunder. It breaks my heart.

It slipped away. There were some breaks late in the game that could have gone either way and none of them went our way.

It just breaks your heart. A lot of the time, the dogs themselves are old and have a real hard time with the adjustment.

It just breaks my heart to think people have to earn a living like that.

It's always nice to get off to a good start in conference from a mental standpoint. We got off to a good start last year and that propelled us into the season, but I don't think that any one weekend makes or breaks you in the long term.

It's always better when you can do it as a team. We didn't catch any breaks last week. Actually, we didn't make any breaks for ourselves. I talked to the girls this week and said just 'cause you have a name you can't just show up and expect to win.

It's another straw on the camel's back toward higher rates, ... but it isn't the straw that breaks the camel's back.

This weekend we had some breaks go our way. We put some offense together and our defense was solid.

This was really only our fifth game with everybody together this year. We're just now getting into a rhythm. With the (vacation) breaks we had, some players being ineligible and other stuff, we weren't able to put it together before now.

We got a few breaks, but they got some breaks too. When you only get a couple hits and you win the game, something went your way.

Joe Sakic

We got a couple of breaks on a couple of goals. None luckier than mine, obviously.

Matthew Weiner

As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

Jeff Galloway

As humans, we're designed to run about 20-22 miles and then you hit the wall. Taking walk breaks pushes that wall back so the marathon can be a pleasurable experience,

Kirk Hinrich

The big thing is, it kind of breaks up our rhythm a little bit. We try to play it a little more up-tempo and then, just every time, we're picking up the silly foul or the other team is getting to the free-throw line. It makes it hard to play.

At US$63.92 per barrel, this breaks the record for the highest WTI price at which a cut has been explicitly called for.

An event like this can be the proverbial straw that breaks the market's back.

Ryan Robertson

Some breaks went our way, and we know how tough (the Jacks) are. Three years ago, they kicked us, physically, in the semifinals. And two years ago, they kicked us in this gym to end our season.

Speed is going to help us out because if someone breaks one, we're going to have to catch them.

Goldie Hawn

Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world.

They start to nod off because they don't take the breaks that they should.

A major obstacle the carrier must overcome is recruiting and retaining qualified employees. United is understaffed at many locations, and its reputation as an employer who breaks promises, eliminates benefits, forces confrontations and destroys pensions does little to help recruitment.

This is one of the most challenging main breaks our department has faced in many years.

Brian Schweitzer

This country has no energy plan, no vision for the future, ... We give more tax breaks and money for oil, and what do we get? Three-dollar gas and wars in the Middle East. If you want to control the destiny of this country, it's going to be with synthetic fuels.

Harold Rosenberg

This breaks my heart. They were hardworking people and very honest.

Barry Zito

They were getting the breaks we were getting in our streak. I figured they weren't getting breaks like that. ... When you have that kind of losing streak, you really stop caring. They were doing things today that normally major league teams don't do, like every time I threw to first their entire dugout was yelling 'Back!' They obviously were fired up.