Top 100 On Break Quotes
#1. A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist.
"Hi," she said.
"Hi."
"You're really cute."
"I don't have any money."
She spun and walked away. Ah, romance.
Harlan Coben
#2. It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.
David Millar
#3. Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.
Lev L. Spiro
#4. As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.
Catherine Hardwicke
#5. Ryan shrugged. 'Maybe. Come on, break a smile and introduce yourself. I don't bite.'
'Stay out of my way,' she said, and before she could turn around, Ryan grabbed her arm.
She flashed him a murderous look.
'Are you tough, Stay Out Of My Way?' he said airily.
Deepika Kumaaraguru
#7. Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I can go days without talking to another human being unless it's my mother, especially when I'm not teaching or on break.
Roxane Gay
#8. I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
Madison Pettis
#9. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Robert Fulghum
#10. I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.
Chris Stapleton
#11. I don't need to be liked, but I need to be vital - on set or on stage - and I think that probably would be my advice: Stay vital. It's about saying 'no' and asking the tough questions and believing in yourself when no one else will, but you have to know the rules to break them.
Logan Marshall-Green
#12. Liberty," he continued, wrinkling his nose at the used condom that lay on the bottom flight of steps, toeing it to the side of the stairs with distaste. "Someone could slip on that. Break their necks," he muttered, interrupting himself. "Like a banana peel, only with bad taste and irony thrown in.
Neil Gaiman
#13. *on saying I Love You* When you hear those words, it's like being picked out from the crowd.
Philip Siegel
#14. My daughter is a real migraine sufferer; the minute she has a handful of Haribo sweets, she gets a headache. There's a connection between what the liver can't break down with what goes on to trigger a headache. You just have to be aware.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
#15. Cause I'm on set, make it work, break even on 9 to 5's. Cigarettes and lotto tickets, tryna keep that grind alive
Drake
#16. My mind is like a little house,
My peers break into.
They rearrange my furniture,
And the cabinets rifle through.
They throw things out;
They put things in,
And erase the writing on the wall,
And by the time that they walk out,
It's not my mind at all.
Margo T. Rose
#17. Thanks. Hey, before I go, how's the romance coming with that vampire, what's his name?" "Vlad? I staked him. He was going to cheat on me and break my heart." Sasha shrugged. "I broke his first." Never screw around with a psychic. Especially not murderous ones.
Eve Langlais
#18. So, is the Italian stereotype true? Are you hung like a horse?" I hear Gabriel choke on his drink, and at the same time, I break out of my trance and holler, "Carmen!
Jessica Prince
#19. All of what I told him was true - some people are just meant to break your heart, as if it were their sole mission here on earth to teach you not to fall in love with the wrong person.
Some people will break your heart over and over again, because some of us never learn
Carmen Jenner
#20. When you get your heart broken, other people can help you pick the pieces up, but only you can glue the pieces back together.
Sam Madison
#21. In a world without a destination, we cannot even break ground on our Tower of Babel, and no amount of rush and hurry on our part will change that.
Thomas Ligotti
#22. You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces.
I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got.
Caitlin Kittredge
#23. On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
Barack Obama
#24. As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.
Mel Torme
#25. Weasels
and stoats
and foxes
and so on. They're all right in a way
I'm very good friends with them
pass the time of day when we meet, and all that
but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then
well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.
Kenneth Grahame
#26. The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
James A. Baldwin
#27. If string isn't tight and you try to break it, it's very hard to do. But tighten it to the utmost and put just the weight of your finger on it, and it will break.
Leo Tolstoy
#28. Don't break my heart," he heard her whisper, making him stop for just a second to look her in the eyes.
"I won't. Don't break mine," he responded, making her smile as she pulled him back to her. She wanted his lips on hers again.
Kat Green
#29. I don't know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound - I remember somebody shouting, Jim don't let them break you.
Jim Bakker
#30. When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
Anita Brookner
#31. I was like Elvis "The Pelvis" Presley on Ed Sullivan, I tells ya, punished for the crime of being sexy. (him on the telly , me in a dingy alley ... any analogy will break down under scrutiny.)
Russell Brand
#32. A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.
Kate Elliott
#33. Frankly, the trouble with winter is, it is all backbone. It is fleshless, insensate, with neither a breast to be leaned on nor a heart to love and ache and, if need be, break, nor any kindly hand to fondle and caress like a sea-wave on a sunny shore half asleep.
William Alfred Quayle
#34. Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a break-on-through mood and nothing for it but her own stumbling version caught like lint on her tongue.
T.C. Boyle
#35. Ordinary people knock on doors,
warriors break them down,
but sages enter through the window.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. I think it's the next thing, getting out of the comfort-zone readership, that at some point you have to try and break out of that and see if you can go in new directions. I wanted to do something that felt a lot bigger than a book that's going to sit on a toilet.
Drew Magary
#37. 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
#38. Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them?
Gautama Buddha
#39. There is no other way the world is going to see the supreme glory of Christ today, except that we break free from the Disneyland of America and begin to live lifestyles of missionary sacrifice that looks to the world like our treasure is in heaven and not on the earth.
John Piper
#40. Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts.
Sharon Salzberg
#41. People would say - to break free, to soar, and sadly, to chop your wings too. The moment you listen to them, you voluntarily put yourself in a cage.
Be a free soul - fly or fall on your own terms.
Saru Singhal
#42. Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us ...
Gabrielle Roth
#43. Life is precious and all too short. So I laugh, sing and dive into things heads first with the hope that I don't scrape my ass on the bottom. And when I do I break out the bandaids
K.L. Parry
#44. Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#45. I'm still playing 'GTA;' the online multiplayer is just fantastic. 'Titanfall,' if you can actually get on, is really good, and I just finished the 'Left Behind DLC,' which again, it's one of those games where you put the controller down once you finish and just need to take a break!
Troy Baker
#46. The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.
Pedro Almodovar
#47. I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.
Christopher Meloni
#48. You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
Victor Hugo
#49. You don't want to see that happen on the pitch, it's only right to try and break it up.
Gareth Barry
#50. Broken heart is too much dangerous ...
when it break ... it produce too much energy ...
which can rise u on d top or can fall u in d bottom also..
where u will go ... it'll depend only on u
Arya Vidhan
#51. Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.
Karen Salmansohn
#52. On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, 'That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,' should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies.
Lester Holt
#53. And then she would put her hand over the bird's face like she was hiding it from seeing something, and then she would grab and twist. Break the neck. Slice the head off on the stump.
Jesmyn Ward
#54. Will read a poem by Sir Walter Raleigh at his grandmother's funeral.
"Pondering the joys we had, listen & keep very still. If the lowing from the hill or the tolling of the bell do not
serve to break the spell, listen: you may be allowed to hear my laughter from a cloud.
Lynne Branard
#55. Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.
Danny Kaye
#56. On the best teams, different individuals provide occasional leadership, taking charge in areas where they have particular strengths. No one is the permanent leader, because that person would then cease to be a peer and the team interaction would begin to break down.
Tom DeMarco
#57. In order to achieve a true understanding of string theory, some new idea will be required, and most likely, some break with the concepts on which we've traditionally based physical theory.
David Gross
#58. I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party. It's like knocking into the human collision of everyday life and it just so happens to break down the wall between the audience and me and helps the songs communicate better.
Matt Nathanson
#59. In A.J.'s experience, she wasn't really the kind of woman men would break down a door to get to. Well, maybe if a house was on fire and they were a Good Samaritan with ax and an air mask.
J.R. Ward
#60. I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.
David R. Ellis
#61. God is the nail that splits our palm to break our grip on the world.
Tim Farrington
#62. In hypercompetitive world, the only way to make an impression on your customer is to break through the noise.
Timi Nadela
#63. [Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.
Stephen King
#64. It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.
Victoria Osteen
#65. I suppose there is something in a women's nature that makes a man free to break down before her and express his feelings on the tender or emotional side without feeling it derogatory to his manhood.
Bram Stoker
#66. When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.
Steven Magee
#67. She had always avoided personal reactions, but she was forced to break her rule when she saw the expression on his face. She burst out laughing.
Ayn Rand
#68. You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.
Jodi Picoult
#69. Hathin stared out across the water and deliberately let her eyes unfocus slightly. It did no good lodging your gaze on the waves as they slid and fractured. The trick was to see nothing and everything, until you started to notice any tear or break in the rhythms of the water.
Frances Hardinge
#70. So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.
Mark Twight
#71. The only way to make a spoilt machine work again is to break it down, work on its inner system and fix it again. Screw out the bolts of your life, examine and work on yourself, fix your life again and get going.
Israelmore Ayivor
#72. He can think now only of objects. Something alive, just one small grey bird on a branch, will break his heart.
Michael Ondaatje
#73. In the face of every reason for breaking don't break because if nothing, absolutely nothing else I'm here with my hand on you. You're not alone.
Glen Duncan
#74. Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.
Tom Cochrane
#75. For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over and over to wreck myself on another human, and always failed. I fail now. For it seems that my sorrow is deep in my bones and I'd have to break every single one to let it out.
Louise Erdrich
#76. Time made me stronger, you're no longer on my mind
Boyz II Men
#77. Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you. (Hosea 10:12)
Lysa TerKeurst
#78. My Jesus, fill my heart with so much love that one day it will break just to be with you. My Jesus, you know I have placed you as a seal on my heart. Remain there always.
Bernadette Soubirous
#79. I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not ... black.
Alexander McQueen
#80. The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it itself has no other endeavour than to break through the pressure weighing down on it and force its way either to consciousness or to a discharge through some real action.
Sigmund Freud
#81. It was my decision to break up, but he didn't fight me on it. Would he have fought for Trish? And if so, was it because she was the right girl? Or was Trish simply the type of girl men fought for while I was the type of girl men left without looking back?
Meredith Schorr
#82. I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
Alain Prost
#83. Forgiveness is not an event. It is a series of decisions made over and over again.
Karen Salmansohn
#84. Music was fundamental in my family. Sang at bars, all the way to church on Sunday. Music in school, played guitar pulls at the house, go to other people's houses and break out the guitars, it was fun. It was always there, I've just been a part of it.
Jamey Johnson
#85. Once you break one taboo, others soon come thumgbling down. Once you start rolling downhill, you carry on rolling until you reach the lowest point. For someone with no aim in life and who has never known love, leading a respectable life seems utterly pointless and unbearable.
Rika Yokomori
#86. Watching your moves is like going 24/7 in one room out of freedom just watching when you are going to break your psychic.
(Dexter on Season 7)
Deyth Banger
#87. There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart.
Alex De Campi
#88. Oh Blimey O'Reilly's pantyhose...what is the point of Shakespeare? I know he is a genius and so on, but he does rave on.
What light doth through yonder window break?
It's the bloody moon, for God's sake, Will, get a grip!!
Louise Rennison
#89. I learned something important in my race against Senator Brown: voters want political leaders who are willing to break the partisan gridlock. They want fewer closed-door roadblocks and more public votes on legislation that could improve their lives.
Elizabeth Warren
#90. Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They break hearts. They heal them. If you have the right words, there's nothin on earth you can't do."
- Crave the Moon
Lori Handeland
#91. There is nowhere for this to go that's good and you know it, just like me."
"The only thing I know is, what's at the end of the road we're on is unknown. Along the way, I break through that fortress you've built around you and manage to extract your head from your ass, it'll be worth the trip.
Kristen Ashley
#92. With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.
Sonny Bono
#93. I'm dumping the whole box back into your life Ed, every item of you and me. I'm dumping this box on your porch, Ed, but it's you, Ed, who is getting dumped.
Daniel Handler
#94. Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.
Peter Menzel
#95. Great leap forwards in mankind do not take place because of the economic values we place on them. They happen because we strive to do better and to be better. The sooner we break away from the 'if it makes money it must be good' mentality the better off we all shall be.
David Alejandro Fearnhead
#96. A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down.
Peter Shepherd
#97. The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.
Samuel Johnson
#98. Thank you, Danielle." "For what?" I asked; through the blur my tears created. "For being the first woman to ever break my heart. You have fun on your next date with a dude that sure as shit doesn't deserve you!
Megan Noelle
#99. Danny is on my bed and depressed because Ricky was picked up by a break dancer at the Odyssey on the night of the Duran Duran look-alike contest and murdered.
Bret Easton Ellis
#100. They turned and found themselves facing a bullet head on an ICBM body lumpily stuffed into a black shirt and a brown suit. It was as though King Kong were making a break for it, hoping to smuggle himself back to his island disguised as a human being.
Donald E. Westlake
