Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Marshall Herskovitz

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

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.

Oscar Wilde

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

Lykke Li

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

Lucinda Williams

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

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.

Publilius Syrus

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

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.

Oprah Winfrey

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.

Margaret Atwood

Love is the pursuit of shadows ...

Margaret Atwood

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

Margaret Atwood

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Katie Davis

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

Paul Prudhomme

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

Leon Redbone

I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

LeAnn Rimes

You can't break what's broken already.

Lauren Oliver

I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.

Larry Wall

And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...

Lajos Kossuth

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

Paul Merson

As the saying goes, 'you don't fix something if it isn't broken'

Patti Davis

Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

Patsy Cline

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.