Top 455 Break Quotes

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Ilya Ehrenburg
It’s difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
A. E. van Vogt
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Most people don't have that willingness to break bad ha

Most people don’t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
Carlos Santana
One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television’s cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
Oliver North
Would not the child’s heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?
Max Muller
The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.
Brian Chesky
I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
Alain Prost
I just thank God my husband and I found each other before the advent of social media. I can’t imagine dating someone and seeing what they’re doing on their Facebook page. And people breaking up with each other over texts now? We had to break up with each other face to face back then.
Jen Lancaster
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I’ll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
Naomi Watts
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
Alvin Ailey
Jamie’s gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
Adam Savage
There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.
Douglas Wilson
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?
DeRay Mckesson
If I was in a bad mood, then maybe I won’t talk about it, but you’re going to know about it somehow. If something was bothering me, maybe I would have acted a little bit like a child, meaning I go break something in a room.
Mike Patton
I could have been a cult writer if I’d kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
Haruki Murakami
People are People still gets played to death on ’80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It’s not exactly my favorite song.
Martin Gore
Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!
Jennifer Granholm
Nothing’s a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks.
Robert Downey, Jr.
They look at what’s more important, like subjects to help with the SAT’s, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it’s different.
Justin Guarini
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.
Catherine Bell
Maybe I’m not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.
Roger Maris
When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that’s my food you see at the end of the show and it’s not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I’m draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.
Rachael Ray
Wanted’ released right after my marriage and it turned out to be a blockbuster, but I had already made a decision to take a break. I did not time my decision and fortunately or unfortunately, it happened at a time when I delivered one of the biggest films in my career.
Ayesha Takia
Larry Hogan Sr. was the first Republican to break with President Richard Nixon during his impeachment hearings, weakening not only the GOP firewall of support for the embattled president, but also Nixon’s own defiance.
S.E. Cupp
My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly.
Mark Frauenfelder
Hollywood is a factory. You have to realize that you are working in a factory and you’re part of the mechanism. If you break down, you’ll be replaced.
Mel Gibson
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.
Marty Meehan
I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don’t break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive.
Nimrat Kaur
I don’t want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I’m not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn’t replacing Babe Ruth.
Roger Maris
It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
Abraham Lincoln
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
Cecil B. DeMille
There are times you break up with a loved one, a friend, or whatever. You feel alone. It’s a very easy feeling to understand – the feeling of loss, heartache, and pain.
Kenny Omega
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales
When you’re a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.
Trey Anastasio
The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.
Sheila E.
Coming back to ‘Saath Phere’ after a break of more than six months is like walking into an old home.
Neena Gupta
People have said, ‘Let’s build bridges,’ and frankly, I want to do more than that. I would like break to the walls of ignorance between East and West.
Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That’s the way we need to work, and that’s the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.
Abhishek Bachchan
Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
Madeleine Stowe
My whole thing is I don’t want to break mentally. I want to find comfort in uncomfortable situations.
Brian Ortega
I don’t like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
Sam Hunt
I went to see Billy Connolly do two hours with no break at the Apollo, with Parkinson’s disease, during the winter, and it was one of the most important gigs I have seen in my life.
Aisling Bea
I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.
Steve Ballmer
Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.
Yorgos Lanthimos
We’re Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
Ira Glass
Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn’t intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.
Alice Munro
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
Derek Walcott
If you can break bread with a guy, you will actually go the extra mile on the court; that just happens.
Steven Adams
Ain’t no point in stopping or slowing down. Ain’t like no ‘A’ight, I’m done with this, now take a break,’ you just keep going.
King Von
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Mary Shelley
At around 16, I became obsessed with James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. I was absorbed by the sense of someone trying to break out of an institution but then became interested in Joyces experimental way of writing.
Michael Rosen
I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.
Chaim Potok
Women artists need to break barriers in order for women’s experience to be valuable.
Liz Phair
YouTube has been a great source for me to spot talents across the world and provide a break.
D. Imman
Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.
Annie Besant
I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.
Mordechai Vanunu
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
Octavia Spencer