Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Gilliam

I read the reviews, my career is over. I'm a broken man. Crushed. Smashed.

John Bryant

Being broke is economic. Being poor is a disabling frame of mind. It's a condition of the spirit.

John Bryant

Being broke is economic, ... Being poor is a disabling frame of mind. It's a condition of the spirit.

I'm pretty good as long as my sword was handy, ... The punching was hard for me because I punch like a girl. I had to learn to look as if I'm physically really whacking the stunt man. But if a scrap broke out, I think you'd be pretty impressed by my skills.

Salman Khan

If I would have known that, perhaps I would have broken down and broken out of jail.

If one of these links in a small business' supply-and-demand chain is broken due to a computer system that is not Y2K compliant, it would lead to irreparable damage to a business that lacks a large capital pool,

Harvey Brooks

I had to do something or the horses would have broken their legs.

The city is broke and I'm sure some of you businesses are feeling the same angst.

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.

Lauryn Hill

As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.

Laini Taylor

He wanted to tell her that everything he had done he had done because he was broken, because watching her die had destroyed him, but there was no way to say it that didn’t sound like he was trying to pin the blame outside himself

Lisa See

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

Johnny Depp

Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

John Selden

Marriage is a desperate thing.

James Russell Lowell

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

James Russell Lowell

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

James Q. Wilson

Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.

James Q. Wilson

A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.

James Q. Wilson

Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

James Q. Wilson

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

The ice broke off and they started floating out and the ice was getting smaller and smaller as it melted. We had to get rescue personnel out there.

The European markets will play catch-down this morning. Sentiment finally broke down after disappointing earnings releases and a further increase in the price of oil.

The guys found that the concession and two storage buildings were broken into. There were food products dumped in the parking lot, tipped-over planters and damage to a wood railed fence and the in-line hockey field.

The guy on the phone told me I broke the old record by at least 30 minutes,

The guy helped me out. He broke up some scar tissue that was in my knee. It worked out great for everybody, I guess.

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.