I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die
The opportunity to write for the 'L. A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
Morning breaks. So do bottles and bones.
There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.
I think Apple is a wonderful example of spectacular marketing and I love having my iPod. There are the naysayers who say that "nyah, nyah, it breaks" and I think "well, I don't like what Microsoft made. . . "
Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. The price you must pay for your own liberation through another's sacrifice is that you in turn must be willing to liberate in the same way, irrespective of the consequences to yourself.
But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be.
I don't take breaks, man, I'm always doing something.
I'm at my best when I'm working. Breaks are not great for me. I get frustrated sometimes, if I have a long break and somebody says, "Oh, that must be nice!"
If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.
she sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right. ' 'then you shouldn't be so concerned about losing some of yours. ' she says, grinning. 'Fair enough.
Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.
[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart.
If some thug breaks into my home I can use my roundhouse kick, but I prefer he look down the barrel of my gun.
I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris. . . and then I will walk.
God Bless the grass That grows through the crack They roll the concrete over it To try and keep it back The concrete gets tired Of what it has to do It breaks and it buckles And the grass grows through. God bless the grass
She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.