Break Quotes - Page 31

• How do they manage to go on living?.....By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.

  Naomi Ragen

  Heart, Loving Life, Starting Over

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• I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.

  Naomi Wallace

  Reading, Thinking, Space

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• We were interviewing an author, and we started talking about how so many of them - Salinger, Shaw, Fitzgerald - were really an odd bunch. They put a barrier around themselves, and not many people got through it. This was the spark that I really latched onto - someone who could break through the barrier. Of course [FINDING FORRESTER] really began to take shape when I began to wonder, what if it was a young person?

  Mike Rich

  People, What If, Wonder

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• I am determined, even if they throw mud in my face, never to show any resentment, nor break with them, nor deviate from the esteem and honor I owe them in the sight of God. If they forget themselves and say or do something offensive against your little bark, even if it is done purposely to make it sink, bear with it for the love of God, who will save you from shipwreck and calm the storm. Do not complain or even say a single work about it. In spite of everything, continue to compliment them when you meet, as if nothing were amiss.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Sight, Honor

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Dark, Years

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• On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, 'That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,' should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies.

  Lester Holt

  Cutting, Oatmeal, Guy

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• Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean flee to my lodge in the hills.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Mean, Fleas

  "Fictional character: Groucho". "Monkey Business", www.imdb.com. 1931.

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• When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty.

  Marlene Dumas

  Falling In Love, Art, Pain

  Marlene Dumas, Gianni Romano, Angela Vettese (2003). “Marlene Dumas: suspect”, Skira - Berenice

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• How swiftly the strained honey
  of afternoon light
  flows into darkness
  
  and the closed bud shrugs off
  its special mystery
  in order to break into blossom:
  
  as if what exists, exists
  so that it can be lost
  and become precious

  Lisel Mueller

  Light, Order, Darkness

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• The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

  Sally Phillips

  Children, Topshop, Jewelry

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• I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

  Sally Phillips

  Hair, Blonde, Red

  "A funny five minutes with Sally Phillips". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.

  Heather McHugh

  Train Of Thought, Track, Trying

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• I plan to join the 'SNL' band as a maraca player and stand behind saxophonist Lenny Pickett. That way they will at least cut to me before commercial breaks. I'll be sure to look right into camera.

  John Mulaney

  Cutting, Player, Cameras

  Interview with Louis Peitzman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2011.

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• I mean, to win a major, you've got to be a good player and you've got to get your breaks, as well, to win.

  Retief Goosen

  Mean, Winning, Player

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• I didn't drown. I didn't break.

  Melissa Marr

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• My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Echoes, Listening, Tape

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• All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit.

  Robert Greene

  Crush, Revenge, Fire

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• A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Doors, Stories, Boundaries

  "TOMS founder credits success to curiosity, powerful story". Interview with Steve Kuhlmann, www.mrt.com. March 23, 2015.

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• With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.

  Joe Bastianich

  Party, Giving, Four

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• To stay young,
  To save the world,
  Break the mirror.

  Nanao Sakaki

  Mirrors, World, Young

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• 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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• 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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• 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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