Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Ballmer

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

Stephenie Meyer

When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options." -Bella

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?

Truman Capote

I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.

Regina Spektor

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

Trent Reznor

If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules.

Veronica Roth

Oh, are we at the insult part of the breakup?" she says. "Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose.

Haruki Murakami

That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more.

Haruki Murakami

How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

Hans Selye

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

Oscar Wilde

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

W. C. Fields

The best thing to break is a contract.

W. C. Fields

It is funnier to bend things than to break them.

W. C. Fields

I never eat before breakfast.

W. C. Fields

I must have a drink of breakfast.

Zoe Wanamaker

Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.

Zola Jesus

You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.

Zola Jesus

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

Zola Jesus

No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Vladimir Putin

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.

Vladimir Putin

Everyone must be equal before the law, abide by it, pay their taxes and bear the punishment should they break the law.

Woody Allen

Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn't even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer.

Woody Allen

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

Salma Hayek

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

Walt Disney

As the original Mary Poppins budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.

Sarah Dessen

It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.

Sarah Dessen

Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.

Sandra Bullock

Music, somehow, breaks through, to everybody.

Rory Bremner

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

Roger Mudd

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

Sarah Mlynowski

Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.