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

• The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts...

  

  Allen Tate
  • Shadow
  • Broke
  • Reaching

• 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

• A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Together
  • Sweet
  • Kitchen

• My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Heart
  • Broke
  • Help Me

• 'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Records
  • Street

• Reason is nothing without imagination.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Reason
  • Imagination

• They brought me in and told me they were probably going to pick the option up. You always want to earn whatever you get. I take a lot pride in that. He didn't have to bring me in today. I appreciate that. When I was a free agent, a lot of teams called and I really didn't answer. There was only one place, and that still remains the same. I don't want to play for nobody else but the Yankees.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Today
  • Free

• If it ain't broke, don't break it.

  

  Charles Oakley
  • Break
  • Broke