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

• Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Time
  • Back
  • Broke

• 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

• If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • Heart
  • Break
  • Battering

• 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

• Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Universe
  • Break
  • Adversity

• 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

• He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Life
  • Time
  • Break

• Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Time
  • Way
  • Sexuality

• If it ain't broke, don't break it.

  

  Charles Oakley
  • Break
  • Broke