You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.
I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.
I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer.
I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
Denis: Eighth floor? Alexander Kerner: Yup. Denis: Elevator? Alexander Kerner: Broken. Denis: Shit. Alexander Kerner: You can say that again.
Boss Tweed: The appearance of law must be upheld, especially while it's being broken.
Louis: But the world was a tomb to me, a graveyard of broken statues, and each of those statues resembled her face.
Young Noah: [to Martha] You know I want to give you everything you want. But I can't. It's broken.
Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.
In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.
I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they're still in love and still write together.
It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.
I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
They say compassion is the only voice; a gift which can help mend the broken, lift the fallen and soften the hardened.
People despite their struggles, flaws and faults are honestly the most beautiful creatures. We are wonderfully-broken pieces of art.
