Famous Quotes & Sayings

Flannery O'Connor

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

Henry Miller

I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.

Cassandra Clare

Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me.

George Herbert

A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

Christopher Columbus

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

J. B. Smoove

I don't consider myself a stand-up comedian. I consider myself a performer; a comic as opposed to stand-up comedian. Stand-up comedians stand there and do their bits; I break every rule in creation. If there's a rule that can be broken in stand-up, I'll do it.

Before the election, that information (that scientists were making public) could have been the straw that broke the camel?s back.

Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas.

Edgar Prado

Hopefully he's back. He broke sharp and was right with those horses from the go. ... He never gave up. I was very happy with his race.

He's the kind of person, unlike so many others, that will step forward and help. He's the kind of person who pulls over when he sees someone's car is broken down. This is a case of good intentions misinterpreted and an example of why people don't help each other anymore.

Carmelo Anthony

He's looking good - better than what I thought he (would) coming back from a broken hand. He's looking real good.

Ron Francis

He's like me ... only he can skate, ... When you come in the league everyone is always trying to put a label on you to compare you to someone. I know when I broke in the comparison that I heard was to Jean Beliveau. There are always going to be expectations when you get drafted as high as he did, but you'll see him develop his own unique style over time. Most guys find their own niche and their own way of making their career. I think there is no question that he is going to play in the NHL and be very successful.

He's a raw talent, basically, but he's so fast and he's just all over the place. He broke a lot of tackles out there.

Franz Boas

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

Jeanette Winterson

I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

Jim Carrey

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love. It becomes incredibly painful.

Jet Li

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

Jennifer Weiner

... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for signs, who analyzed patterns, who went over every word in a conversation looking for hidden meanings, secret signals, the subtext that said, Yes, I still love you, of course I still love you.

Jennifer Weiner

Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?

Jeff Abbott

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

George Bernard Shaw

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Hannah Kent

It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues produced landslides, that we become caught in the cracks between what we said and what we meant, until we could not find each other, did not trust the words in our own mouths.

Ginnifer Goodwin

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Gerald Brenan

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

Harry Crews

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

His 74 looks a lot better when only nine kids broke 80. It was a real good round for Brady. He put himself in perfect position exactly what you want to do on the first day.

He's everything everybody said he was. And he's exactly the kind of player in an up and down game toward the end who's going to create a lot of havoc because everything he does is in a broken court situation.

I don't think Mr. Rather was reckless, ... Just as they broke the mold when they made him in Texas, I think they broke the mold (for his type of hurricane coverage) when Dan retired.

I don't think I see myself (as a DH) now. Anything can happen. There are a lot of variables involved. I broke spring training as a DH last year, I guess -- I didn't know that then -- and the majority of the games I played (were) in the field and I made the all-star team.

Rafael Bejarano

My filly broke very sharp but I didn't want her to go too fast early so I just put her in a good position and waited. At the three-eighths pole, there was an opening so I put her in there. When we turned for home I moved outside and when she saw the daylight she took off.

My first two books, I was very close to my main character, stuck inside their head. And then with 'Arrogance,' I broke into many different voices. I introduce many different characters, and that helped me to develop a confidence to move between different characters, between different voices.

Richard Pombo

Obviously, we're approaching this differently than we have in the past, ... trying to deal with a broken system.