Break Quotes - Page 23

• The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.

  Walt Kelly

  Perfect, Forever, Gone

  "Pogo". Comic strip by Walt Kelly, 1948 - 1975.

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• Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from the old associations. New contexts form from old. The script gets flipped. The languages evolve and learn to speak in new forms, new thoughts. The sound of thought becomes legible again at the edge of the new meanings.

  DJ Spooky

  Long, Association, Way

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• When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Emotional, Interesting, Intellectual

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• To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated.

  Mick LaSalle

  Treasure, France, Film

  Mick LaSalle (2012). “The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses”, p.7, Stanford University Press

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• It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!

  S. E. Hinton

  Rough, Fairs

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.40, Penguin

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• One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.

  Robert Smithson

  Erosion, Ideas, Rivers

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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• Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

  Florence Welch

  Fashion, Emotional, Turmoil

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• Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'

  Paul Tillich

  Pain, Light, Voice

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• Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.

  Jan Garbarek

  Break Off, Trying, Minutes

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• Fix him so I can break him again!

  CM Punk

  Wwe, I Can

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• The Heart Break Kid does not rest in peace. He can stay up ALL NIIIGHT!

  Shawn Michaels

  Rest In Peace, Heart, Kids

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• We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Religious, America, Community

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• If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

  James Lee Burke

  Promise, Our Words, Occasional

  James Lee Burke (2011). “A Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set: Neon Rain, Heaven's Prisoners, Excerpt from The Glass Rainbow”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• When I know I have a huge shoot, I’ll just go into the sauna and steam out my face. Product-wise, I don’t really do much because I sometimes think products make me break out . I just use normal soap and water and moisturizer. My brows are really important to me but I’ve never plucked or waxed them. I’ll just fill them in with Anastasia brow kit.

  Chanel Iman

  Wise, Thinking, Water

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• Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could be lost; or, a little more, it could be half... I say that, taking the extreme situation, half dies, half lives, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist.

  Mao Zedong

  War, People, Would Be

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• My agent called and said, 'How do you feel about a pirate movie? I mean, how often are you going to get that call? It's sort of the singularly most failed genre of our time, but I thought it had to be attempted one more time. I think there's something rebellious about pirates, something revolutionary about them. They came out of a time when things were oppressive; you could get hung for stealing a loaf of bread. For me, the Pirates films are about when it's right to break the rules to achieve what you want.

  Gore Verbinski

  Mean, Thinking, Pirate

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• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Ignorance, Rocks, Enlightened

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• Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

  Marissa Mayer

  Wonderful, Moments, Demographics

  "Marissa Mayer On Charlie Rose: The Future Of Google, Future Of Search". Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. March 6, 2009.

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• Despite all the types of rejection, the most important part is to keep on moving forward and to not give up. If things are getting bad, take a break and seek out people for their opinion on what you may do to improve your presentation. In the end, it is all a numbers game and it does become a lot easier. It stops becoming this big ordeal and is just part of the job.

  Mark Edward

  Jobs, Giving Up, Moving

  "Understanding Rejection From Galleries". markedwardadams.com. March 11, 2013.

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• Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

  Sara Gruen

  Want, Hips, Delirious

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.309, Hachette UK

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• Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major.

  Kevin Gates

  Folds, Majors

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• An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

  Timbaland

  Artist, Bigger Than Life, Persons

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• I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

  Mark Millar

  Writing, Fairytale, Crime

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• How life teaches us, breaks us, rewards us, and tears us apart... how it lifts us up and brings us down... the wonder of life.

  Marwa

  Tears, Rewards, Wonder Of Life

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• If you look at UFC champions: BJ Penn - terrifying! GSP - terrifying! Anderson Silva - terrifying! But I'm not terrifying. I am not the super-submission guy, I am not the one-punch KO guy, so I am not the most feared guy in the worldBut I will not quit, I will not break and I will fight you like a dog for every second of every round. I am not a super-talented guy, I'm just a dude who will fight you tooth and nail.

  Forrest Griffin

  Dog, Fighting, Ufc

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