Ground Breaking Quotes

#1. Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.

Eric Fellner

#2. I think 'Star Wars' always has to be bigger and bigger and better every time, and there's a great cast on 'The Force Awakens.' It's ground-breaking.

John Boyega

#3. 'The Tudors' was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.

Annabelle Wallis

#4. We needed to get back to the times of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy or Tristan and Isolde. Where you felt that life altering, ground breaking, universe shifting true love.

Emily McKee

#5. James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

Roger Ebert

#6. I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.

Edward Burtynsky

#7. Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.

Tupac Shakur

#8. The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.

Joe Grant

#9. 'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.

Jason Reitman

#10. The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#11. The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection.

Mark Carwardine

#12. When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

Christine Lagarde

#13. The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.

Chrissie Hynde

#14. Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.

Rob Sheffield

#15. To be honest, I found the 3D in 'Avatar' to be inconsistent and while ground breaking in many respects, sometimes I thought it overwhelmed the storytelling. Technology aside, I wish 'Avatar' had been more original in its storytelling.

Mark Canton

#16. Professor Raylene's ground breaking study found that subjects with Tourrette's Syndrome burned more calories than Lutherans.

Chris Dolley

#17. My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

Howard Stern

#18. The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless
most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.

Guy Kawasaki

#19. In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

David Pajo

#20. Sports have always been a huge part of my life and my conversations. It is a thrill and an honor to be a part of this ground-breaking show. I am a competitor at heart, but a true sports fan to my core.

Summer Sanders

#21. We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

Dan Futterman

#22. Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.

Dave Barry

#23. In New Zealand, we have a one-party disclosure system, where if one of you knows you're being recorded, it's completely fine. It doesn't matter if the other person doesn't know. Look, I'm not breaking new ground by recording people who don't want to be recorded.

David Farrier

#24. Yes," he said, "but we are on the ground here; this is our place; he comes breaking in; he must adapt himself to us; not we to him.

George R. Stewart

#25. And even then, it might not have been too awful, but his head snapped back and he hit a rock, breaking like a blunt molar from the ground.

Sanjida Kay

#26. My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.

Edward Brooke

#27. If you immerse yourself too single-mindedly in your chosen art form whether it's video games, movies, comics or whatever, your work can easily become just a reflection of what others are doing in that field rather than breaking new ground.

Jordan Mechner

#28. One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.

Dave Gibbons

#29. The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.

Sally Schneider

#30. Often fear is the same emotion as excitement. It means you are breaking ground.

Anya Hindmarch

#31. It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.

Jerry Greenfield

#32. In my last scene in 'Breaking Dawn,' Bella has just died and I run outside and crumple to the ground and just lose it. I'm bawling. That was my last scene of 'Twilight' ever and I definitely had some extra motivation.

Taylor Lautner

#33. There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

Ken Kesey

#34. Fantasies die slow, quiet deaths. They're like cherry blossoms breaking away and sailing down slowly, still holding onto their color and their softness and beauty, but ending up on the ground to be blown out by cold winds.

V.C. Andrews