Top 1200 Break A Leg Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I mean, dear old 'Bergerac', or dear young 'Bergerac' as he was then, he had a gammy leg, he was going through a nasty divorce with his wife, he was a recovering alcoholic, it's a wonder he can get up in the morning let alone solve any crimes. And he also had to drive that ridiculous car.

It's sad when people break up.

When you're a star, critics can't make or break you.

Nadal is going to break all the records.

I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

Better is to bow than break.

As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

Life is short, break the rules.

I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little... it'll grow back!

Sharley felt his strength ebbing away, and his weak leg throbbed painfully, but then a tingling sensation thrilled through his frame and the fighting blood of the Lindenshield clan began to roar through his veins. He drew breath and out crashed the war cry of the icemark.

When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers.

Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.

...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

Break through the bonds of your past.

The full squat is a perfectly natural position for the leg to occupy. That's why there is a joint in the middle of it, and why humans have been occupying this position, both unloaded and loaded, for millions of years. Much longer, in fact, than quasi-intellect ual morons have been telling us that it's 'bad' for the knees.

A person who can break wind is not dead.

Nothing is ever solved, or created, by standing still. Movement is the process of the Universe. So move. Do something. Anything. But do not stand still. Do not fence sit. Put your foot down on one side or the other, swing the opposite leg over and start walking. You'll know before you take ten steps if you're going in the right direction.

I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book - everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside.

Whores do sometimes break up with their johns.

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

You can make or break a picture in the dubbing room.

Move fast and break things.

I'm gonnna break your faces!

You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.

I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.

As long as I don't break the camera, I'll be fine.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

Sorry if we can't all be unoriginal but I have a mold to break.

The ties that I have here were too strong to break.

break the rules pay the price

Break open the forbidden happiness.

It is easy to follow Christ when all things are safe. But your love to Jesus Christ would be seen more, if you must lose your lives, or deny your Jesus. It would be a trial of your love, when fire and faggot [a wooden stick] was before you, if you would rush into that, rather than fly from the truth as it is in Jesus. Though all things are calm now, the storm is gathering and by and by it will break; it is at present no bigger than a man's hand. But when it is full it will break and then you will see whether you are found Christians or not.

The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.

I only train, I don't know what a break is.

You'll never get to heaven, if you break my heart.

The stinkiest hair products have got to be any sort of perm, and Nair. In fact, they smell remarkably similar. Do you think that Nair is just a souped-up version of a perm that makes your leg hair super-curl until it falls off? And can anything that smells that bad be good for you?

There were basically three themes. One was the sun theme which is the guitar when he'd get sun on his leg and it comes again in the end. And there's of course the lullaby which Dido sang, "If I Rise." And then there's this driving guitar which is the motivation theme.

I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out - I'd still probably survive, but not very well, and that's what we're doing to the ocean. It's the life support system of this planet. We've been dumping in it, we've been polluting it, we've been destroying it for decades, and we're essentially maiming ourselves.

When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No.

Nothing we can't handle, break it up and dismantle.

I break my two feet seven times.

I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

When you break an artist, you learn a lot.

There is no promise in the world that is okay to break.

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.

Break-up albums are the best kind.

Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

It was easier to break promises when they weren't voiced.

Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

Only love can break your heart.

Nobody is allowed to break the law.

Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

If it doesn't break your heart it isn't love

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.