Breaking Down Quotes
279 quotes by 258 authors
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Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.
— Judith McNaught
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The Girl With Many Eyes One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I met a girl who had many eyes. She was…
— Tim Burton
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Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had…
— Ernest Hemingway
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For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
— Bruce Lee
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This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.
— Amanda Hocking
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For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s†with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process…
— Lynne Truss
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At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has…
— Paul Auster
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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 or Mrs. O'Leary…
— Rick Riordan
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Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total…
— Jim Butcher
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A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Oh," he said, knocking a red ball into a hole. "It's you." "You were expecting someone else?" I asked. "Am I interrupting your social calender?"…
— Richelle Mead
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Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Hey, a guy can hope. I mean, it’s not impossible that a car full of scantily clad sorority girls might break down outside and need…
— Richelle Mead
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To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and…
— Ray Bradbury
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You got used to running things on your own." "What could he do about it when he's in Iraq and the car breaks down in…
— Nora Roberts
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In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have,…
— K.P. Yohannan
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
— Ann Brashares
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The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the body's absorption of…
— Michael Pollan
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Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the…
— J D Salinger
Who Wrote These Breaking Down Quotes
258 authors contributed a total of 279 Breaking Down Quotes, led by these top contributors: