Break Quotes

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird.

People think I'm crazy and reckless but I'm absolutely not... I'm soooo safe and soooo careful and I won't do anything that feels like I could break something.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything.

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.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Having a pulmonary embolism is definitely easier than heart break.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.

You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.

I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.