Charles Oakley Quotes

If it ain't broke, don't break it.

Charles Oakley

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• I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Record
  • Break
  • Someone

• I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Memories

• You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Heart
  • You
  • Break

• Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Military
  • Week
  • Broke

• Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Emotional

• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hell

• I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was – you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Know
  • Sense
  • Rules

• A bowler can make or break a chap.

  

  John Newton
  • Break
  • Bowler
  • Chap

• I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Great
  • School
  • Black

• I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Certain
  • Break
  • Combination

• It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • Death
  • Economy
  • Break

• Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Poetry

• There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

  

  Ashlee Simpson
  • Up
  • Moments
  • Break

• It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Up
  • Break
  • Give

• Hope will break your heart all over again.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Break

• You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Red
  • Break
  • Fingers

• When he realized he was getting duped he actually broke down and started to cry. He thought these guys were friends and helping him get the pictures off the Internet.

  

  David Joyce
  • Friends
  • Helping
  • Guys

• In a narrow market, when prices are not getting anywhere to speak of but move within a narrow range, there is no sense in trying to anticipate what the next big movement is going to be. The thing to do is to watch the market, read the tape to determine the limits of the get nowhere prices, and make up your mind that you will not take an interest until the prices breaks through the limit in either direction.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Moving

• We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.

  

  Gene Ween
  • Waiting
  • Broke
  • Comprehensive

• Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

  

  William Goldman
  • Mind
  • Beautiful
  • Enough

• Upon the decease of my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in my own right, shall receive their freedom . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of Orphan and other poor Children. And I do hereby expressly forbid the Sale, or transportation out of the said Commonwealth, of any Slave I may die possessed of, under any pretence whatsoever.

  

  George Washington
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Support

• If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can learn the more easily not to clutch at them as they pass... you learn to be reverent and not proudly possessive.

  

  Gerald Vann
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Inspiration

• If it ain't broke, don't break it.

  

  Charles Oakley
  • Break
  • Broke