Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Connolly

Financially, we were stuck. We got to the point where you go on the road and are lucky to even break even. What is really the point?

I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.

We passed the breaking point last night. If we get any more today, we're going to have to give them plastic sheeting and have them camp in between the other tents.

David Whyte

Poetry is a break for freedom.

Brad Faxon

But, really, I don't plumb-bob a lot because I don't think it reads enough break into the putt.

The government is responsible for pushing the Maoists to break the cease-fire.

The good news is the break up of driving surface of asphalt (across the city) is less severe than in previous winters.

We've been playing good, we just haven't caught any breaks. Hopefully we saved all the breaks for the end of the season.

We see Vail shares as a value opportunity in light of a solid outlook for the 2005/2006 ski season and real-estate sales that should break records in terms of price per square foot.

We're the only people I know that know the number of a couch repair company. They would fly around the house and break stuff. You had to keep them corralled.

We've been looking at him... in the Premier League which has done a lot for him, and like Demar, there are other players in the league that are also on the fringe of breaking into the senior squad.

Rachel Taylor

We had a break between patients on the last day there, and one little girl got to sit on my lap and look at the pictures our photographer had shot and stored on her laptop. She was so tickled. She laughed, and pointed at the screen and chattered away like crazy in Spanish.

To think back on those games that we have lost, the close games, it hurts you. It hurts you to know what we could do better. We put so much work into it and then come into the game and just have a mental breakdown offensively and defensively. We just want to scream.

Trumpeting a one-year decline in spending may mean spring break lasts six days instead of seven days, but it's still spring break in too many agencies.

With a start up business, if it's the first year and you're breaking even, that's a good target. With feedback we've been getting, I think we can shoot higher than that this summer. We think we're going to get busy.

Christopher Moore

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

Diane von Furstenberg

I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do is you tell them the truth of why you are breaking up with them, and after that, you somehow compensate with other things. If you have loved someone, I think that somehow they should always be a part of your life. I really do.

Ben Horowitz

Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.

Barney Frank

There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows you to say to the small businesses, who have been catering lunches for you, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.' It allows you to go to the workers and say, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.'

Barry Eisler

I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.

Barton Gellman

Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

Gwendoline Christie

I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.

G-Eazy

It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'

Gene Pitney

You have 'listeners' ears' when you're just starting out, and your 'listeners' ears' tell you what will work. You lose those ears later, when you break songs down into production elements too much.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them

If people liked seeing me in loverboy roles, I don't intend to break that.

I may have the 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' soundtrack, which I've been told is embarrassing, but come on, there are some good songs on there.

Greg Fitzsimmons

That is the thing about being a writer; your subject matter may not stay your subject matter if you break their trust by revealing personal and editorialized information about them.

We led 3-1, but I told my team at the break we were going to lose this match. We were running naively up front and Cologne just wouldn't give up.

We returned from Spring Break healthy this year. We were plagued with multiple injuries very early in the season. We now have a full roster again. I'm excited.

Ellen Goodman

The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we'd walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.

Fergie

There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.

Fergie

I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.