Famous Quotes & Sayings

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

Chris Eyre

The only time I broke down and ever cried was when I got to Dallas. And I cried and I cried, ... The fellow who was issuing my ticket said, 'Would you like a window seat, ma'am.' I said, 'Anywhere you want to put me. I just want to be on an airplane.'

The only thing I can figure out without going into the motor is that it looks like it broke a main stud (one of three inside the engine which holds the crankshaft in place), ... From there, somehow it wedged the rod in the cylinder which eventually led to it breaking. As soon as it started, you could tell something was wrong. It was the first time in all my years in racing that I've seen something like this happen to us.

Zach Randolph

The power went out at my house and I couldn't open my (electric) gate. I had to open it manually, and I broke (the gate) trying to do it. Coach understood.

Ada Yonath

Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.

Chuck D.

We seek information about confidential sources from reporters only when it really, really matters, ... What is broken about the way we are handling subpoenas to the media? ... I don't see anything in our work that justifies discarding 33 years of careful practice that has served the nation well.

Anna Kendrick

I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be.

Jacqueline Novogratz

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

You are not broken and you do not need to be fixed.

We were driving to Vegas for a show, ... In the middle of the desert, a giant fight broke out. I was driving, so I was trying not to throw any punches, just stiff-arming people's faces and stuff and trying to stay in the middle of the road. We didn't pull over. It was pretty much an inside-the-car fight. It was little out of control. I thought I was going to die.

While this was an abrupt drop, even if the Nikkei had broken under 15,000 it would have been a fall of around 10 percent. I think that is a completely natural correction.

You cannot expect people who have broken their spine once or twice to stand up straight when a new decision has to be made.

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.

Anthony Collins

Fires have broken out everywhere, ... We just have to watch them. Our trucks can't reach them.

Finally, we started looking for shots from outside instead of driving inside and that broke the game open when we decided to do that.

Exports were flat for a second month running and that has been what is most broken in the trade picture.

But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

John Bradshaw

I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

Barack Obama

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

Lindy Ruff

The good part is that it was broke up by getting home for a day before Toronto, and now home for a few more days. It's now been broken down to a one-game trip, so it's a lot easier to digest.

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.

We came in here focused and ready to win, but we just broke down in our game plan in the middle stretches there and let them get away.

Anne Robinson

Whose broken out in a rash of ignorance?

Rosario Dawson

I didn't even remember it because it kind of came up, and then a week later it said I broke up with him.

Freya Stark

Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?

We wanted to send our seniors out with something to remember. If we win two times tonight, we would've broken the school record for wins, but it didn't happen.

We've had a chance game after game after game. I know I sound like a broken record, but it's true. As long as we continue to work hard in practice, everything will eventually take care of itself.