Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ringo Starr

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

Tim McGraw

Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough

Toni Morrison

Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? ... The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, because the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head high, free.

Tom Perrotta

Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

Tom Brady

I feel like I have always played within the rules. I would never break the rules.

S. E. Hinton

It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!

Stephenie Meyer

You're awfully small to be so hugely irritating.

Stephenie Meyer

But what if...what if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were right, that you wouldn’t even consider the truth? Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break through?

Victor Hugo

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Veronica Roth

I wake wondering how I did not notice, every day I sat across from her at the breakfast table, that she was full to bursting with Dauntless energy. Was it because she hid it well? Or was it because I wasn't looking?

Usher

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

Suzanne Collins

Whatever it takes to break you.

Swami Vivekananda

Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.

Rupert Brooke

And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.

Rumi

He alone has the right to break, for He alone has the power to mend.

Tom Robbins

The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.

Michael Fassbender

Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.

Melissa Rivers

Oh God, friend breakups are the worst. The worst! And I've been through it. Basically, if you're over the age of 5, you've been through friend breakups.

Melissa Marr

I didn't drown. I didn't break.

Michael Stipe

In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.

Michael Ondaatje

You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

Maureen Johnson

Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can't-shut-up me, kind-of-snarky-to-the-strange-guy-trying-to-be-helpful me, breakup me, and the extremely popular jump-on-top-of-you-unexpectedly me.

Matt LeBlanc

Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.

Matthew Arnold

Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.

Max Cannon

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

Patricia Briggs

I don't break; I bounce.

John Updike

That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

Nicole Kidman

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive.

Morton Hunt

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

Morton Feldman

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

Shay Mitchell

The craziest thing I've done getting over love is skydiving. I had a really upsetting breakup. When I broke up with my boyfriend I needed to like do something different and so I actually went skydiving to turn over a new page.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Nicki Minaj

You succeeded at your attempts to make me Need you desperately to vindicate me