Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

- Charles Simeon

What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural creatures, are not human and have never been human. They have different customs and different taboos, and woe to anyone who breaks them.

- Holly Black

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.

- Henry Rollins

Everyone is going to make bogeys and doubles and get bad breaks in bunkers. It's just kind of licking your wounds and taking what it gives you and move on.

- Graham DeLaet

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

- Elia Kazan

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

- Dorothy McGuire

I don't take breaks, man, I'm always doing something.

- Darren Criss

I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

- Dakota Johnson

I look at Justin Bieber and my heart breaks for him, because I know what he's going to go through. He knows it. Everybody knows it.

- Donny Osmond

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

- David Icke

I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.

- Adam McKay

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

- Bill Maher

While Donald Trump believes in huge tax breaks for billionaires, he believes that states should actually have the right to lower the minimum wage below $7.25. What an outrage!

- Bernie Sanders

I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.

- Bernie Mac

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

- Bear Grylls

With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.

- Alberto Salazar

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

- A. J. P. Taylor

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

- Angelina Jolie

The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu