Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

Klaus Kinski

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

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!

Ian McDonald

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

He played a full game with a broken nose only a couple of weeks ago, so he is pretty tough. I was not surprised about that.

Her building was still standing, but everything around her was destroyed. There's no electricity, the windows are broken and she wants to move up here too.

Giotto di Bondone

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

Geraldine McCaughrean

[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.

Gilbert Parker

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

George Herbert

Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Giacomo Casanova

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

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,

I am of the mind if something isn't broken then don't try and fix it.

I feel healthy. It's plain and simple. I've been struggling with injuries. Two broken legs the past three years doesn't help. I went through a full season in pain last year and just suffered. Going into the summer, I knew I had to get better or else I probably wouldn't be ski racing after this year. I just couldn't handle it.

He's not imposing to other players until he hits -- then he's imposing. He hit a guy in center ice, with his shoulder, a clean hit. The guy had his head down, and he ended up with a broken jaw and a concussion.

John Gilmore

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

Jackson Pollock

I continue to get further away from the usual painters tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

Carrie: Honey, if it hurts so much, why are we going shopping?Samantha: I have a broken toe, not a broken spirit.

Jack White

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

James Frey

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.