Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Whyte

Poetry is a break for freedom.

Failure to push the budget through could be the straw that breaks Mori's back.

Every time I would get the lock open the dog would push the lock button down and relock it. He thought I was trying to break in. He did that three or four times before the owner managed to get him to the other side of the car so I could swing open the door.

Robert Frost

Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend

Brad Faxon

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

Peter Coyote

When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.

Barack Obama

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

Barack Obama

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

Angelina Jolie

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

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.

Eddie Jones

The good news is that it's not something too serious and with some rest and a break from the game, he should be right to start the Super 14 season.

Alan Ladd

What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?

I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the realm of possibility.

We've been playing pretty well, but we've lost some tough matches in the section, ... It looks like it is going to be hard for us to make the playoffs. We've been close to breaking 200 the last couple times out, and those are pretty good scores for us. We just need to be more consistent than we have been.

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

Graeme Souness

We're hoping we can get him through to November. We have the international break coming up, and that is two weeks, so there is a window there which would be a possibility. Given his track record, and given the way he plays football, I would imagine he would be out for about three weeks.

We self-destructed in so many phases. The free throws, the turnovers. We couldn't handle the ball. Just things like that. We didn't get any breaks (from the officials) but we shot ourselves in the foot, too.

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 see the need to break the cycle in 1998.

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.

Joel Kinnaman

We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

We've been looking for a breakout night. We've been shooting in the mid-40s (percentage). We made our shots tonight, and we played real good defense. We're real happy with the win.

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.

Jacques Lemaire

We didn't get any break on penalties. Unbelievable. Sometimes, it's a joke. I just take it as a joke.

We had a couple wide shots, and we had six corners and they only had two. Their goal was just a defensive breakdown and they were able to put it into the back of the net.

Phil Garner

We had a chance to break through in the first couple of innings, then he settled down. You've got to get to him early, before he gets in a groove. That's what happened to us. He got in a groove.

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.

We got kind of a break on a miss by him. The real thing was his miss more than my make. The fact that we stole two points was big for us.

We are so pleased that the hot line worked, and that these two individuals stepped forward as they did and led to a break in the case.

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.

Beth Grant

I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break on camera - maybe because I'm just so cheap, and I know how expensive it is to shoot - but I broke on 'Sordid Lives,' and I broke on 'The Office.' Those are the only two times in my life.