Famous Quotes & Sayings

Afrika Bambaataa

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

Richard Krajicek

Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.

The deal breaker so far is his insistence on keeping the ball.

Robert Moog

There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to.

Roxane Gay

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

Rachel Boston

I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.

Rudy Giuliani

The rule is, you can protest all you want. Make all the noise you want. Carry all the signs you want. The minute you throw a rock, you get arrested. The minute you break a window, you get arrested. The minute you break into a store, you get arrested.

The danger of buying at the last minute is that there may only be the dross left. A 40 per cent tax break is not much good if the return is going to be poor.

The debates give him an excellent opportunity to break through the noise with no filters, no reporters, no spin doctors, just John Kerry,

A. E. van Vogt

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

West Chicago caught some breaks earlier in the game. I guess in that last inning it was our turn.

Bruce Forsyth

In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.

Bruce Dickinson

I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.

Cheech Marin

My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.

Eric Shanteau

Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.

Ferran Adria

I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.

We are not involved. We are not going to break the cease-fire agreement.

We are not going to stop this fire until we get a break in the weather.

Lisa Kristine

The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all have human value. That's what my work is about.

Kat Edmonson

For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.

Lauren Weisberger

I'm a child of the '80s, so like everyone else, I love all those classic, formative movies - 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' 'Pretty in Pink,' 'Sixteen Candles,' 'Dirty Dancing,' etc., with 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' existing on a separate, slightly higher plane.

Kelly Slater

It's a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it's big, as the swell from deep water hits the shallow reef ledge. A ten-foot high wave and a 30-footer break in the same depth of water.

John Bonham

We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.

Three guys breaking 40 is three guys that can break 80 (for 18 holes), and that's a team that can win states.

James Blake

To win on Tommy's serve was great. It was welcome. I had no regrets going after his second serve on match point. Six months ago I wouldn't have had the confidence to do it. Early in the year, the break points were the ones I was missing. I need to keep those points going my way.

Troy went past me but he went too deep...I just kept my line and ended up back in front. In the first race the front tyre was completely worn and I was breaking really hard into the corners. We made some changes for the second race. The team really understands me and the kind of rider I am.

Troy has a tendency to break down mechanically. It's very seldom and it was just a couple of little things about his mechanics. I told him to trust his stuff and get back in the zone. He's an exceptional pitcher, who needs to trust that stuff and go after hitters.

Kenenisa Bekele

Today's race was tough because of the wind. The wind made it hard to break away and I needed every ounce of strength to pull away from the other runners.

Yeah, things happen. It's one of those things where you just kind of figure out what you need that year and go with it. Sometimes you can replace players with better players, sometimes you break even and sometimes you don't. You look around with any team in the league and that's the way it goes.

John Collison

You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light to having all this light - the Internet is kind of like that.

You know he's the right man for the job. It's just the mind-set he has. All the crap that can seep into your mind doesn't even enter his head. He breaks it down to A-B-C. For some guys it's the whole alphabet. It's trigonometry and calculus both. He's the consummate pro.

We needed that break to get back to the basics, then start preparing for Cornell instead of us going right into preparing for this game.

Eli Pariser

We need to fix the Bush prescription drug plan that subsidizes big pharmaceutical companies at the expense of senior citizens. We need to stop the oil companies from obscene profiteering, which reduces the standard of living for so many Americans. As usual, this Administration prescribes the same quack medicine for all our ailments: tax breaks for the richest Americans and the largest, most profitable corporations.