Break Quotes

My passions were an intersection between peace in the Middle East and climate change. I know how to understand a technology problem, break it into its components and solve it. I also knew I couldn't make peace solely through technological inventions.

Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.

There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.

I don't like the whole off-and-on thing. I don't like 'taking a break.' Either you're with me, or you're not. And that's how I kind of deal.

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

It's always annoying to me when I see Nick Cannon on a press appearance and everyone's asking about Mariah Carey. Give this guy a break. How many years and how many ways does he have to answer the stupid question.

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

Having a pulmonary embolism is definitely easier than heart break.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

If you break down a game, two-thirds of it happens in the pocket the way it's supposed to, and a third of it, there's a movement adjustment, there is pressure and all sorts of things that can take place.

There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values.

'Twelve Angry Men' was done with an intermission, and I took that out. I really wanted an audience to feel like they had no break, just like those jurors, and you're not going to get out of that room until you come to a decision.

We are truly bombarded by images. To break through and be observed, let alone focused on, you have to have impact and power.

When you were playing cricket non-stop without a break, relentlessly, then these breaks really help you.

I'm a big-boned, athletic-looking woman, and I have to make the best of what I've got. I like to stay fit and healthy, but I could probably give myself a break sometimes.

I'm normally getting glammed for my events and when I can give my skin a break, I do.

What is now commonplace was once not, and I think that's a testament to what it means to really break the mold and push the limits.

When you break an artist, you learn a lot.

In the course of our daily lives, we're bombarded with a barrage of visual messages, some blatantly aggressive, some subtle. The trick is to find a way to break through without adding to the clutter and the ugliness. We have to be responsible about that.

One thing that we have found over the years is that video games themselves are a thing that have a tendency to be difficult for them to break out of a particular segment, or a particular group, or a particular group of people with particular interests.

It never gets easier to break a new act.

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

My first break was in a Hong Kong movie that I shot in China - I was going out there and working as a western stunt man, if you like, but at the same time in England I was working in daytime soap stuff. Eventually I put the two together.

I've been asked, 'What was your big break?' I don't feel like I've had a big break. It's been a slow, slow break.

The Big Machine Label Group will continue to knock down doors to break female talent.

If that day come, and artists I've had incredible runs with just break my heart one day, you know what? I still got to do stuff that was actually really incredible. When that day comes, I'll deal with it. Until then, I'll be grateful for today.