Famous Quotes & Sayings

Asafa Powell

If I thought about (the record), I would have broken it but the key is to have fun. (The fans) are crazy out here. It's like I was in Jamaica. I'm excited to see the people. The fans are what fuel me.

Jonathan King

If I'd broken them, I'd have deserved on-going payment, but since I didn't manage to, the future depended on their own endeavors.

John Nash

If he had broken the law, or was more culpable, perhaps. It was an accident. It wasn't an intentional violation.

Joschka Fischer

If (entry talks) are broken off and the shards are lying on the floor, then it will become damn costly for us,

Phil Jackson

I felt they were self-directed out there. They knew what they wanted to run. They broke down the double-teams and I didn't have to burn timeouts to explain it to them. That was satisfying to me.

I decided he would come back with another curve ball. It broke right over the inside part of the plate.

Michael C. Hall

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

Melanie Rawn

The future is not set in stone, and even if it was, stone can be broken.

Mason Cooley

Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

The chain of cultural memory has broken down. I get kids in my class whose mothers and fathers didn't have a clue about cooking, and they're lost. There's a gap and it's just part of the culture.

The communication has not completely broken down, but the talks have.

Neale Donald Walsch

Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.

Nancy Thayer

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

Miguel Indurain

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

Miguel de Cervantes

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

Neil Gaiman

Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.

John Piper

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

John Piper

The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.

John Piper

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

Mark Tobey

The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up..

Mark Spitz

Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken

Mark Pellegrino

Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

Marilyn Hacker

Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.

Eric Kripke

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

The idea is that whenever you have a broken nerve connection, you can supply the electrical impulse to complete the circuit.

The Florida legislature has the opportunity to fix our broken legal system by passing reform legislation to stop abusive lawsuits and inject personal responsibility back into our courts. Florida citizens want to see fairness in our courts, not more junk lawsuits. Now is the time for citizens to urge their elected officials to take action.

The flood never broke a pane of glass. There was no real structural damage by the flood, just a lot of mud on the floors, but we got the chance to update the building and do some renovations that were needed.

You don't have to spend time fixing the old broken system. You've got to spend time building and developing a performing system from scratch.

Jake Gyllenhaal

When I was 19, I thought [Brokeback Mountain] was going to be the best movie ever made. And everyone was going to see it and it was just going to be incredible. And then nobody saw it and it didn't get bought at Sundance. And it was a really great experience. Humbling. And then it's since found its way.

Henry Rollins

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

Henry Rollins

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Henry Rollins

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

Henry Adams

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.