Top 455 Break Quotes

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
Even with the quality of players that we have, they’re an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.
Frank Lampard
No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show.
Paul Michael Glaser
I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.
Kate Hudson
Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
William Robertson Smith
My mom has passed down that you can be chic and look beautiful, and you don’t have to break the bank. I grew up like that. She also taught me I don’t have to stress all the time. She’s always been a go-with-the-flow type of woman; that’s how she raised us, and I find that’s how I’m raising my little girls now.
Ayesha Curry
I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
Randy Jackson
Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.
Kendrick Lamar
I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy b

I need a little bass and I don’t even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
Patrice O’Neal
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor’s hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo
John Cena I respect, but he know he never get out of my camel clutch and I can break his back.
The Iron Sheik
I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That’s just part of my makeup.
Hilary Swank
Since my mother passed away, my father and I forged a bond that is so tighter than one could possibly imagine. Keep in mind, I am an only child, so I was always fiercely close with both my parents. The tragedy my father and I endured when my mother passed created a bond between us that no amount of force can break.
Jenna Morasca
I was terrified to be my true self because I felt that it wasn’t enough. But I allowed myself to break down those walls.
Hannah Brown
I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn’t do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.
George Lopez
The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.
Thomas Bangalter
I developed the Clock Theory to help me time records; you know, spin the record back two revolutions or whatever and then play the break, spin the other one back two, play, like that.
Grandmaster Flash
Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He’s so good – I mean, practically anything I’ve ever read of his I’ve really enjoyed. He just has tremendous talent. But I think he should have given himself a break and gone deeper into the society.
Tom Wolfe
I think we’ve broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn’t think it was appropriate.
David Talbot
I don’t know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.
Mark McGwire
These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar.
William Cavendish
I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I’d try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I’m not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
Malcolm Wilson
I’m like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.
John Fogerty
I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I’m actually not like that at all.
Gabriel Byrne
Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
Patricia Cornwell
If I dream that I’m directing, it’s not a film, it’s like a commercial for cotton candy, and I’ve got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I’ve got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.
Mike Birbiglia
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S Truman
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
On a 60-mile trek with a 200-kg. bergen on my back, I felt my ankle break. Some might have given up. I broke my other ankle to even up the pain. And carried on.
Ant Middleton
My daughter’s absolute go-to is Sasha Banks. However, we did do the ‘Dance Break’ one time in Chicago, so she keeps talking about Carmella.
Mustafa Ali
I’m just a giddy teenager who would like to break into show business any way I can.
Bo Burnham
The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.
Phaedrus
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly – indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
Arianna Huffington
In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.
Matt Cameron
‘SNL’ is our main priority because that was our first big break.
Akiva Schaffer
I don’t know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
Ozzie Smith
A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
Julian Casablancas
At worst, spring break in Daytona Beach feels feral – like everybody is trying to re-create scenes from the movie ‘The Hangover.’
W. Kamau Bell
The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.
Roger Bannister
I have truly been inspired by the struggle and triumphs

I have truly been inspired by the struggle and triumphs of so many women that dare to break new ground in all aspects of society, and those who have pushed the boundaries of human imagination.
Christina Koch
I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
We don’t have real hours and we don’t have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It’s transgressive in such a personal way.
Laurie Simmons
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt
When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn’t necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.
Anne Graham Lotz
In the past, when I’d recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn’t getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.
Amy Grant
In college, there never really was an offseason. The season would end, you’d get a week break, and then the hardest time of the year would start. Winter workouts in college were absolutely miserable.
Pat McAfee
I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn’t know what to say.
Andy Partridge
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Jean Paul
There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don’t deserve that kind of grace. I don’t deserve that break.
Willie Aames
You can’t break my spirit, it’s my dreams you take.
James Blunt
My children know I would never call anyone to give my son or daughter a break.
Mithun Chakraborty
I’m a communist, man. I’m going to break the rules.
Skip Bayless
I’ve never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox’s biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell’s been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.
Wentworth Miller
When you really break it down to the way the world works, we’re all little humans floating on a gas ball in the middle of space. That’s the reality of our situation. And we’ve created these concepts and constructs that move us away from that.
Lauren Jauregui
We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.
Joel Salatin
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them – and with as little impunity.
Ralph Chaplin
When someone gets closely related to a character they play on TV, it’s very hard to break that mold and go on to do something else.
Katherine Moennig
I can’t imagine, I can’t get in the mind of a wrestling fan who wants to break news that spoils a surprise for somebody. Would you want a surprise spoiled?
Dean Ambrose
When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn’t break up the team.
Rosemary Clooney
Every December I take two or three weeks off. After an entire season of training and climbing, my body needs the break.
Adam Ondra