Point Break Quotes

• There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

  J. Carter Brown

  Promise, Breaking Promises, No Point

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• I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

  Jim Butcher

  Ego, Weight, Earth

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.170, Penguin

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• It was really a pleasure to play someone who’s literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

  Jeri Ryan

  Past, Play, Silence

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal labor government has regularly angered Church officials by making controversial ministerial appointments against the wishes of the clergy. . . . These and other actions have strained the church-state relationship almost to the breaking point. As a result, some of the bishops have advocated disestablishment.

  Dan Barker

  Government, Wish, Church

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• I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

  Cara Castronuova

  Way, Needs, Goes On

  "'Biggest Loser': Meet the mystery trainers!". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Endure, put up with whatever comes your way, learn to overcome weakness and pain, push yourself to breaking point but never cave in. If you don't learn that lesson, you'll never succeed as an elite athlete.

  Toni Nadal

  Pain, Athlete, Way

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• Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.

  Luc Tuymans

  Lying, Essence, Weakness

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• All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Order, Giving, Mind

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

  David Gemmell

  Strong, Fate, Men

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 7, 1984.

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• I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.

  Amy Lowell

  Writing, Creating, Agony

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• Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

  Jean Genet

  Art, Poetry, Invisible

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.125, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.

  Theodore Millon

  Party, Circles, Soul

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• Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Thinking, Blow, Order

  "Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President". Book by Jimmy Carter, p. 444, 1995.

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• What the studio didn't understand is that surfing is about a billion times more dangerous than skydiving. They would not allow the boys to skydive, but they allowed us to surf in pipeline in Hawaii. Nine-hundred foot waves. So we're out there in the middle where the greatest surfers in the world surf. They have these long lenses on from the beach, so they can't see anything. They are just shooting our faces in the Point Break.

  Lori Petty

  Beach, Boys, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We live in this culture of endless extraction and disposal: extraction from the earth, extraction from people's bodies, from communities, as if there's no limit, as if there's no consequence to how we're taking and disposing, and as if it can go on endlessly. We are reaching the breaking point on multiple levels. Communities are breaking, the planet is breaking, people's bodies are breaking. We are taking too much.

  Naomi Klein

  Community, Culture, Earth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When you conceal inner reality, this pressure builds. You often don't expose yourself until it reaches extremity, a breaking point, and what emerges is a dramatic shift - at least in the eyes of others, from whom you've hidden the truth. So, dropping out of high school was like that for me. I was fine, I got straight As, I had friends, and then boom, I was like, I'm done.

  Melissa Febos

  School, Eye, Reality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.

  Paul Virilio

  Photography, Reality, Thinking

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when I was 19 and my mother died, and one was when I was 31 and my first child was born. And that sort of gave me a kind of rebirth that I think has been invaluable to me as a novelist, in terms of seeing the world anew.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

  George Packer

  Book, Opinion, Great Book

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• During the football scene in the Point Break they were playing, and I wasn't slated to be in the football scene. I was like, "I want to play!" So they said, "Go play." It was just a gas. There was a responsibility of being the leading lady - there's a responsibility to that.

  Lori Petty

  Football, Responsibility, Scene

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore

  Deepa Mehta

  Drama, Hate, Years

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• In Point Break, I was the only woman in there, so it was pretty easy to feel like a sex symbol. You've got all the naked, wet, Hot Chili Peppers, right? You've got Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves and then the whole crew. It was me and 50 dudes the whole time. It was awesome!

  Lori Petty

  Hot, Easy, Break

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.

  Rebecca Twigg

  Order, Limits, Being The Best

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• That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Morning, Determination, Pain

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• I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

  Robert Redford

  People, Hardship, Quitting

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