Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm not sure what broke first but the transmission didn't want to be connected to the differential anymore.

I like where I'm at, but I have a long way to go. I set a pace and held on to it. I decided to run at a five-minute (mile) pace. I hit it dead even and broke out in front. That was my goal.

Carl Icahn

If you just broke it up, the stock would be higher. In Time Warner, we're saying the conglomerate concept does not work.

In the first half our defense was nonexistent. We mentally broke down for a three-minute period.

Poppy Montgomery

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

Nelson Mandela

Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.

Jodi Picoult

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

Jodi Picoult

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

Jodi Picoult

do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

Jodi Picoult

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

John Green

No headboards were broken.

John Green

Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.

John Green

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

Graham Nelson

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

Jim Butcher

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

James Hogg

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

Janeane Garofalo

I guess when your heart gets broken, you sort of start to see the cracks in everything.

Mark Twain

I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

Mark Twain

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

Mitchell Baker

We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

Marilyn Monroe

If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

Marian Anderson

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

Ned Vizzini

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

Julian Baggini

Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.

Julian Assange

If you see the rhetoric from coming out of the Democrats is that they're pro-civil liberties, and an important part of civil liberties is respect for the First Amendment and the rule of law, and that has broken down under the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton was part of that process.

Keith Urban

...And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive...

Keith Richards

My life is full of broken halos.

Kim Harrison

Of course I’m shielding her, you broken feather!

Kazuo Ishiguro

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

Kelly Clarkson

Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.

Katie Davis

Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.

Marshall Herskovitz

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.