Broke Quotes - Page 39

• On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.

  Thornton Wilder

  Friday, July, Bridges

  Thornton Wilder (1956). “A Thornton Wilder Trio: The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Woman of Andros”

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• They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Causes, Displeasure

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• The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Father, Military, Soldier

  "Louis de Bernières: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.

  Joan Didion

  Believe, August, People

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.30, Zola Books

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• When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

  Joe Louis

  Government, Boxing, Owing

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• Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.

  John Lahr

  Gone, Selling

  "Master of Revels". www.newyorker.com. May 3, 2010.

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• They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit the dictates of their intuition. In short, they broke all the laws of rigor and of mathematical decorum. The veritable orgy which followed the introduction of the infinitesimals... was but a natural reaction. Intuition had too long been held imprisoned by the severe rigor of the Greeks. Now it broke loose, and there were no Euclids to keep its romantic flight in check.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Law, History, Long

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• I bought my son an indestructible toy. Yesterday he left it in the driveway. It broke my car.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Son, Yesterday

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• Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

  Jon Lovitz

  Wealthy, Being Broke

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I broke things to get attention.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Attention

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• I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

  Janet Fitch

  Wish, Oleanders, Knots

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• I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always really treated me very, very wonderfully. And whenever anything broke up, I was always the one to leave. So I think I've been really very, very lucky.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Men, Thinking, Lucky

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• Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.

  Alberto Salazar

  New York, Winning, Men

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• To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

  Anne Heche

  Mother, Sorry, Heart

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom.

  Paget Brewster

  Knives, Bathroom, Violent

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• Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.

  Shane Black

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 21, 2005.

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• I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

  Brooke Burns

  Necks, Classic, Break

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• Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

  Toni Braxton

  Scarlett O Hara

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen.

  Traian Basescu

  Moving, Rights, Europe

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• I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!

  Katie Cassidy

  School, Play, Feelings

  "Katie Cassidy's Most Confident Moments" by Jamie Primeau, www.seventeen.com. February 27, 2013.

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• The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

  Chris Chocola

  Oil, Stories, Scandal

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• If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

  Anne Archer

  Directors, Want, Producers

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• I was called Matt Dillon's brother my whole career basically until 'Entourage' broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead.

  Kevin Dillon

  Brother, Drama, Careers

  "Kevin Dillon Talks ‘Entourage’ Ending, Keeping Johnny Drama Alive". Interview With Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I am extremely lucky; I've never been ill - although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding.

  Micky Dolenz

  Years, Gliding, Lucky

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• Broke is a Hollywood term!

  David Geffen

  Hollywood, Term

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