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. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
I went to a fight the other day and a hockey game broke out. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend. View quote
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. View quote
Sid Vicious
Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul. View quote
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. View quote
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). View quote
Hilaire Belloc
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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? View quote
Steven Wright