Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ban Ki-moon

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

Kevin McCloud

I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league.

Tough call. I think I broke my thumb.

Billy Graham

This stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain.

This story kind of broke in the news because the publishers went to the press with a letter saying they didn't think DiMA was negotiating in good faith. We responded with a letter outlining what the facts of the negotiations have been.

Rob Zombie

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.

Darryl Sutter

We played well enough to get a point, but that's about it. Games like these have such a fine line, we had a disallowed goal on a quick whistle, and we had a broken play on the overtime goal, and that was the difference.

Trent Reznor

My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if there's something broken inside me, if there's a hole in there, I thought: If I could just write a good song someday, then I'd be OK. You know, if I could just be on stage in front of people I'd never seen before and be validated by them.

I thought we played a great game tonight. I thought we outplayed them. Trumbull has a good team. We jumped up on them, they broke back with four straight goals, we outplayed them in the third period and overtime, but they got a lucky bounce. That's what can happen in overtime.

I thought our third goal was huge. But they turned the tide, scoring twice to get right back in it. But our fourth goal broke their backs.

I thought our defensive effort was fantastic. Most of their points came from the foul line. We really broke down what they wanted to do.

I think we've already broken out of the trading range. Most of 2005 was the trading range.

Rick Ross

I think what's disturbing about the Raelians is the total submission members have to Claude Vorilhon, and the fact that families have been estranged and marriages have been broken as a result of his influence.

Tim Johnson

I think a lot of the buck does stop with FEMA, ... Their system for matching law enforcement needs with law enforcement resources out around the country broke down.

Debbie Ford

Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people's lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We still have a broken system. The only thing that changed was me.

Lance Robertson

We actually start getting a lot of calls from people about broken pipes.

Yeah, I guess you could say that. We broke a lot of stuff.

Kobe Bryant

Yeah, I broke it out. It's fun for us. The guys get hyped about that. That was kind of a backbreaker, so that was the airplane.

Danielle Steel

He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Among wolves, no matter how sick, no matter how cornered, no matter how alone, afraid or weakened, the wolf will continue.She will lope even with a broken leg. She will strenuously outwait, outwit, outrun and outlast whatever is bedeviling her. She will put her all into taking breath after breath. The hallmark of the wild nature is that it goes on.

Courtney Love

There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.

Gib Lewis

Since they all broke up the greatest conference in football, which was the Southwest Conference, I've had little interest in them any more. I thought that was a disaster and a disgrace when they did that, but they did it anyway. So I've lost interest them and I don't care what they do anymore.

Sara Shepard

Judy Blume especially sort of broke the boundaries of what is appropriate and what should be written about - what teenagers are actually doing.

Guy Spier

I do not use short selling. The fund has not shorted a stock since the 2002 to 2003 time frame. At that time I did short three stocks, on which I broke even on two and made money on one of them. The experience taught me that I was not going to be using short selling going forward for a slew of reasons.

Walter Kirn

What should be, is.' As my grandmother explained it to our family the winter she lost three fingertips to frostbite when the furnace in her little house broke and she fell and cracked a hip while trying to light it, 'Accepting life's imperfections is not the secret. The secret, dears, is to understand life has none. How could it? We've got nothing to compare it to. We can dream something up, of course- some pretty maybe life where fingers are very hard and indestructible- but that's pure mischief, darlings. Fingers freeze. It's one of the things they like to do sometimes.

Without her I would not be the same person. She was always there if I needed to talk. She was the kind of teacher that broke the teacher-student rules. She saw kids with old clothes that looked rough and she would help them. She would help them be better people.

Sam Hunt

Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.

When you're at the top of the tree, teams try to force some things. I think we saw that tonight with Flower Mound. They tried to force the issue and we broke them down.

Two thousand hands, and everyone of them I could have gone broke on. I really had to pay attention.

Oliver Evans

Two sets of railways will be laid so nearly level as not in any place to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, on smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages so that they may pass each other in different directions and travel by night as well as by day; and the passengers will sleep in these stages as comfortably as they do now in steam stage-boats.

There has to be some type of record that's been broken already. I don't think I've ever heard of a team that's been this successful, in the history of high school sports, any sport. It takes the words right out of your mouth because you're so amazed.

Ed Markey

Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.