Broke Quotes

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. (Henny Youngman)

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

Robert Kiyosaki

I went to a fight the other day and a hockey game broke out.

Rodney Dangerfield

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

Rodney Dangerfield

The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

Sid Vicious

Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Mark Twain

Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.

Samuel Johnson

The accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and Champagne, and Bridge) Broke - and Democracy resumed her reign (Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne).

Hilaire Belloc

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Thomas Mann

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. (Lord Byron)

I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.

Marlee Matlin

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.

Hjalmar Branting

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

Karen Joy Fowler

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

Anne Heche

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.

Paul Lynde

The Russians are liars – you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world power is like this, but that's the way it is, and we must keep our strength.

Harry S. Truman

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

Robert A. Heinlein

I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

Leonard Cohen

John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains and he withdrew his fire until the day when men withdraw their vultures. (Ayn Rand)

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

Michael Crichton

My first poem was a bolt from the blue ... it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.

William Carlos Williams

Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.

E. M. Forster

Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, "Do I know you?

Steven Wright

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