The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.
Time seems so inconceivably vast, until it crushes, pressing you paper-thin between one broken-heartbeat passed, and the laughter yet to come.
We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.
I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
Cottage cheese, broken down into its simplest form, is milk that has been curdled to mimic the cellulite its consumption is meant to banish.
I'm a very law-abiding citizen, and I've never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!
I don't do it for Michael. I do it for them." "Them?" "People." "They're broken! Flawed!" "Yes, but some of them try to do better. Try to forgive.
For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
You are not broken. You are not a problem to be solved. Solving your “problem”, whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.
A ... and so it is... Beauty fades away but while you have it, use it well, wear it well. It is a treasure to be spent quickly before the magic spell 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.
