Breadline Quotes

#1. We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtually on the breadline.

Brian Blessed

#2. If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

David Mamet

#3. One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.

Jean Anouilh

#4. All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Lenny Bruce

#5. She said people on hard times deserved to have beauty in their lives as much as anyone else, whether or not they could pay their rent or were walking to a breadline. Granny said that just because someone was poor didn't mean they were poor of heart.

Pam Munoz Ryan

#6. If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

Edward De Bono

#7. The essence if hope is accepting uncertainty.

Debasish Mridha

#8. A stylish person, for me, is one who draws your eye without necessarily being showy; they wear clothes that are beautifully cut, flatter the wearer, and show that they are not impervious to fashion, but not a slave to it either.

Jojo Moyes

#9. Transference is that set of ways of perceiving and responding to the world which is developed in childhood and which is usually entirely appropriate to the childhood environment (indeed, often life-saving) but which is inappropriately transferred into the adult environment.

M. Scott Peck

#10. Every German child learns to speak English in school.

Cornelia Funke

#11. The military part of our information network - which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information - was the first part of the network to fall apart

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#12. If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

Noel Coward