Then, in high school, I had a kind of mental breakdown; I didn't want to go to school anymore. It felt pointless.… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
Wherever you find marital failure, you will find a breakdown in real communication. Wherever you find marital success, you will find a… — Wayne Mack Copy Share Image
I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s.… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I would hit a scene about my mother screaming at me during her breakdown, drunk or using pills, and she'd turn into… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Each of us face a moment in our lives called 'the breakdown moment.' This is the time when you must stand toe… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When you graduate is when you start to find yourself looking at the information in the audition breakdown and it says tall… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Towards the end of it [working as an escort girl] I could feel myself drifting towards a liquor habit and I had… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous… — Natasha Hamilton Copy Share Image
Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are… — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done… — Christine Jones Copy Share Image
Coach John Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach Denny Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater… — Skip Prosser Copy Share Image
I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
[My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
The problem with being so strong is that when you're about to breakdown, you cry alone because everyone believes that you're too… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I think one of the serious breakdowns in modern evangelism is this: it has offered too much for too little. What we… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“...they'll say, 'He never recovered from that breakdown and this was the result. It had to be the breakdown--not even he was… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“I was playing a new part in a new play: the messed-up adult child coming home in a truly pitiful state in… — Inna Swinton Copy Share Image
Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art… — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in… — Kamisese Mara Copy Share Image
I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out.… — Tom Smothers Copy Share Image
Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image