Broke Quotes - page 2

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke. (Ornette Coleman)
I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
[Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph of the Western world. When I broke the back of Australian inflation they say, "Oh, you're the fellow that put the interest rates up." Am I not the same fellow that gave them the 15 years of good growth and high wealth that came from it? View quote
Paul Keating
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it. View quote
Ken Kesey
My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. View quote
Roald Dahl
I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them. View quote
Ringo Starr
With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army, education and health systems collapsed. People in the West quietly applauded, dancing with and around Yeltsin. I conclude therefore that we should not pay too much attention to what the West is saying. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law. View quote
Michael Foot
My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to. View quote
Rita Rudner
He broke my heart. You merely broke my life. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Excuse me please one more drink. Could make it strong cause I don't need to think She broke my heart, my Grace is gone. One more drink and I'll move on. One more drink and I'll be gone. (Dave Matthews)
Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread; Now that I am without you, all is desolate; All that was once so beautiful is dead. View quote
Conrad Aiken
For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends. View quote
Jim Carrey
The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon! View quote
Federico García Lorca
Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them,-thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak. View quote
Plutarch
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war, and more worthy of relation than any that had proceeded it. View quote
Thucydides
Everyone says that looks don't matter, age doesn't matter, money doesn't matter. But i never met a girl yet who has fallen in love with an old ugly man who's broke. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
I told my doctor I broke my arm in two places. He told me to keep out of those places. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke. View quote
Mordecai Richler
If you're going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don't win, you're usually no worse off than if you hadn't played. (Scott Adams)
Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and thoroughly worth living. View quote
Terry Pratchett
From '41 to '51 I was my folk's contrary son; I bit my father's hand right through And broke my mother's heart in two. View quote
John Masefield
You expect to break me Impossible You broke me years ago. You killed me years ago.... View quote
Charles Manson
I want to always be an interloper. I never want to feel like I'm a guy who is embraced by the people who are putting me on the air. I want to feel like I broke into the studio and took over and made them mad. If I'm not doing that, I'm not doing my job. View quote
Bill Maher