Break Quotes - Page 39

• The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.

  Henri Matisse

  Garden, Doors, Order

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• If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".

  Ken Robinson

  Heart, Kids, Home

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• My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.

  David Sedaris

  Sweat, Guilt, Break Out

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• The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

  Alice Cary

  Dream, Done, Burden

  Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.122

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• In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Weed, Hands, Weather

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.715, Delphi Classics

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• I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

  Ray Charles

  Faith, Teenager, Motorcycle

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.35, Da Capo Press

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• But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.

  Damien Hirst

  Fall, Glasses, Sheep

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• About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Realizing, Paint, Ends

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• First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.

  Viola Spolin

  Firsts, Limits, Teach

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• On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Rocks, Wave, Rage

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• By the time you get to year six, there's never a break . . . and you get tired. There's always a crisis. It wears you down. This has been a White House that hasn't really had much change at all. There is a fatigue factor that builds up. You sometimes don't see the crisis approaching. You're not as on guard as you once were.

  Ed Rollins

  Tired, Years, White

  "Senior White House Staff May Be Wearing Down" by Peter Baker, www.washingtonpost.com. March 13, 2006.

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• Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.

  James F. Cooper

  Government, Enemy, Society

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• The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

  Max Muller

  Crush, Self, Precious Stones

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.23, Xist Publishing

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• Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

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• The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

  Denis Donoghue

  Art, Real, Exercise

  Denis Donoghue (1994). “The old moderns: essays on literature and theory”, Knopf

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• That's when I use the word frustrating, when your body breaks down or your body doesn't do the things I'm asking it to do at my age, because I'm trying to keep up with the Joneses.

  Roger Clemens

  Age, Trying, Asking

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• I realize there will not be another Gretzky, and I will be the first one to say I will not break his records, .. But for him to say that I could, it means I am doing something right. It was probably the best compliment I could get. I'm going to remember it.

  Sidney Crosby

  Mean, Records, Firsts

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• For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.

  Ben Horowitz

  Majority, Example, Problem

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• The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Wall, Pain

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• After a break-up people always claim that things will get better, and in fact they do. ( but not because we in fact ARE better but that the pain, has beaten every last ounce of feeling from us. after we are wasted away, because food and drink seems to be like sand being choked down, and sleep is no comfort because you know you'll dream of them, and have to wake with knowing they'll not be there. after all this is accepted, we are what people claim is 'better'.

  Gabriel Macht

  Dream, Pain, Sleep

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• It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Thinking, Careers, Decision

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• When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.

  Amy Poehler

  Children, Heart, Oxygen

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

  Scott Turow

  School, Law, Careers

  "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

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• Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which has trace of great sorrow all over it, till the smile breaks. Such a smile transfigures: such a smile, if the artful but knew it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

  Helen Hunt

  Sorrow, Weapons, Faces

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• To break training without permission is an act of treason.

  John Heisman

  Training, Permission, Treason

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