Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Glenn

There is not anything like a broken hip or anything like that, and if you have trouble sleeping at night, why it's no problem because there's another one coming up in 45 minutes.

The red ink was a one-month record in February, and the records are likely to continue to be broken this year. The spending side of the budget ledger remains out of control, despite some effort to constrain these expenditures.

Those very short-term support levels were broken yesterday, but the supports under the current levels are substantial. Now that the Fed has made it clear that we will see one if not two more rate hikes, the uncertainty has been removed. We expect the focus to shift to first-quarter earnings results, and they are expected to be good.

Sharad Pawar

This unfortunately has broken that and for the sake of the game I think it would be better if it did go around in order.

We saw everything from minor cuts and scrapes, to severe lacerations, broken bones, and cardiac arrests. Everything you could imagine was happening in that dome.

Gray Davis

Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.

Freya Stark

Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?

Turn the water valve on and listen for any leaks. Because let's say, there was a broken pipe inside the wall that froze while you were away, you're gonna catch it quickly before the house has a chance to fill up with water.

You have to take your hat off to Rio, they did what they needed to do to win. For the third game in a row we didn't finish in the lane and we didn't finish at the free throw line. It's a broken record.

Cassandra Clare

I don’t know why I ever helped you.” “Because you like broken things.

Cassandra Clare

There are some mechanisms that are so—so broken that they cannot be repaired.

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.