Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassandra Clare

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

Moby

Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.

Mickey Rourke

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

Karl Malone

All records are not made to be broken.

Mark Twain

I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

Mark Twain

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

Mitchell Baker

We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

Marilyn Monroe

If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

Marian Anderson

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

Giotto di Bondone

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

Geraldine McCaughrean

[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.

Gilbert Parker

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Martha Gellhorn

A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.

Paul Scholes

Nobody has ever had to go off following one of my tackles and nobody has broken their leg.

Paul Haggis

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

Leonardo da Vinci

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

Paul Prudhomme

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.

Publilius Syrus

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

Poppy Montgomery

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

Nelson Mandela

Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.

Giacomo Casanova

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Jessamyn West

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Jenifer Lewis

The elevator to success is broken. Take the stairs.

Glen Mazzara

Nobody can survive alone, in this world. People have bonds, and sometimes those bonds are broken. And then, that person goes spinning off and connects with someone else.

Hart Crane

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

Fred Rogers

The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted

George Hamilton

After I got out of the studio system, I was completely [broke] for the 30th time; they said I'd never work again. So I'm going to go and produce those movies that they wouldn't let me do.

Graham Nelson

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

Jim Butcher

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

Klaus Kinski

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

Julian Baggini

Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.

Julian Assange

If you see the rhetoric from coming out of the Democrats is that they're pro-civil liberties, and an important part of civil liberties is respect for the First Amendment and the rule of law, and that has broken down under the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton was part of that process.