Break Out Quotes

• I once locked my keys out of my car. I had to break out of my car with a coat hanger.

  Steven Wright

  Keys, Car, Coats

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• Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Education, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

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• Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

  Thornton Wilder

  Talking, Perspective, People

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.

  Denis Waitley

  Dream, Creative, Vision

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• Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole of existence. Yet we can break out of this shell and enter a new world.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Pain, Storm, Shells

  Eknath Easwaran (2007). “The Dhammapada: (Classics of Indian Spirituality)”, p.66, Nilgiri Press

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• I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Morning, Lost Love, Kissing

  Rudyard Kipling (1993). “The Jungle Book”, p.140, Wordsworth Editions

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• You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.

  Zola Jesus

  Want, Born, Can Do

  "20 Q&As: Zola Jesus". Interview with Karen Orton, www.dazeddigital.com. October 3, 2011.

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• Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

  Alan Alda

  Compassion, Long, People

  "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself". Book by Alan Alda, abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2007.

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• If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

  Plutarch

  Hate, Hatred, Mind

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• Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.

  Allan Bloom

  Art, Creativity, Men

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• ...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

  Robert Penn Warren

  Lying, Self, Justice

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• People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beautiful, Butterfly, People

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• The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Order, Disease

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

  Albert Camus

  War, Stupid, Long

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis.

  Pope John Paul II

  Order, Challenges, Routine

  Pope John Paul II (2003). “Go in Peace: A Gift of Enduring Love”, p.47, Loyola Press

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• Leif's frown eased and he slid his finger under my chin and gently caressed my jaw line with the pad of his thumb. "Pagan,will you do me the honor of being my date for Homecoming Dance?The prospect of not being able to hold you in my arms all night is heartbreaking." Mirand sighed from across the table. "Okay,that was beautiful.Why didn't you ask me like that?"she asked Wyatt. Wyatt shot Leif an annoyed frown. "Thanks,buddy.Next time you decide to break out your romantic side,could you do it alone?

  Abbi Glines

  Beautiful, Night, Annoyed

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• At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

  James Wolcott

  Voice, Office, Fever

  "James Wolcott’s Old New York". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 25, 2011.

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• Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

  Walter de La Mare

  Men, Wind, Rose

  The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) "All That's Past"

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• I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out.

  Chanel Iman

  Lasts, Faces, Firsts

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• I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Bullying, Kids, Trying

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• Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Fear, Business

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• Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Each Day, Examination, Lines

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• Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.

  Rick Springfield

  Actors, Want, Boxes

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• One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

  Layne Staley

  Heart, Band, Firsts

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• I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.

  Daniel Tammet

  Wind, Giving, Feelings

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