Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Spade

To be famous and broke is hard.

Curtis Jackson

Being broke is against my religion.

Daniel Webster

We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

Alice Sebold

Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.

Alice Munro

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.

Alice Hoffman

Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.

Anne Lamott

Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared

Anne Lamott

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

Anthony Burgess

Each man kills the thing he loves.

Andy Stanley

Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.

Andre Gide

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Anais Nin

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

Ann Aguirre

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

Ann Aguirre

We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.

Ann Aguirre

He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.

We haven't had any fatalities with this particular product, ... But whenever we see broken limbs, particularly when it's in a situation where it's your bed, it's a very serious problem.

Jeff Koons

We haven't even broken ground yet, and we're ready to sell, ... I'm concerned about the water resources.

Samuel Johnson

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken

Those back-to-back 3s, they've done it all year and that really broke their backs.

George Steiner

Those last three minutes were brutal and broke my heart.

Two weeks ago we celebrated the highest ever sale in the Guardian's 184-year history. Seven days later we broke that record again. The feedback on the new paper from readers and advertisers has been overwhelmingly positive.

Unfortunately, we started our own parade to the penalty box. The only thing I have to say about it is that we can only control our response. What was disappointing to me is that we lost our composure and totally broke down.

Unfortunately, their speed was a little too much for us. We broke down defensively too many times.

We were in zone and it was a broken play. Favre was able to buy time. That play was all Favre.

Barry Ritholtz

We were in this post-election trading range from November to April, and that broke down, ... The bull market has at least one more major run in it, but I think it's probably going to be sometime over the summer, when stocks get appreciably cheaper.

Rob Pike

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

T. S. Eliot

For you know only a heap of broken images

Suze Orman

When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.

Rick Riordan

Yes,' she said. 'The Great Prophecy has begun.' Pandemonium broke out.

Thora Birch

I think only stupid people have good relationships.

Ross MacDonald

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

Roger Mahony

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

Tom Shields

Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.