Break Quotes

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.

I did four independent films during the break between 'Twilight' and 'New Moon.' I haven't even really had time to sit back and process it all. But when you do finally sit back and think about it, it's incredible.

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.

I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, tomato catsup and big fat french fries. It's delicious. Here, you order a creme caramel and the waiter says, 'You know, that contains dairy.'

I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.

Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.

Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.

I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.

At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.