I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
If you think about even very common examples like, say, something that you would build, like a clock or a car or… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
“You can’t really imagine the pain of someone breaking down, even when they’re part of you. Holding the unlit end of a… — Shahid Hussain Raja Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to cry so bad but I know that if I let myself embrace this pain and sadness I'll be… — NICOLE HILL Copy Share Image
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at… — Dave Foley Copy Share Image
The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I actually find in America, there's a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music.… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
Oh," he said, knocking a red ball into a hole. "It's you." "You were expecting someone else?" I asked. "Am I interrupting… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The petroDollar system breaking down, where oil is no longer paid for in Dollars internationally, essentially would be the death knell to… — Addison Wiggin Copy Share Image
If you have conflicts, everything breaks down in society. Kids can't go to school. Basic health can't be looked after. Every aspect… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations. — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
Not everything is going to go exactly as you plan. It's what you do when everything breaks down. — Andy Dalton Copy Share Image
I support the world and love everybody. It's about spreading love and breaking down barriers, not building up hate. — Lil B Copy Share Image
With all the smiles you brought me, I never thought that you could cause me so many tears. — Brittany Copy Share Image
A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down. — Peter Shepherd Copy Share Image
once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good,… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
As you're implying, there's a new technology that can look even deeper into that brick and we can start getting into a… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Despite all the boosterish talk of globalization breaking down barriers, most writers in Anglo-America are still working within the nationalist assumptions of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
If you know that whatever is made inevitable breaks down, you needn't seek too hard for achievement. If you know that all… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't,… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
Well, I would throw myself under the nearest bus, but considering my luck today, I’m sure it would break down less than… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook —BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey… — Mike Gordon Copy Share Image
In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The dissemination of pseudoscience, including such things as the fascination with near-death experiences and the growing belief by Americans -- 34 percent… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image