Break Quotes

'Twelve Angry Men' was done with an intermission, and I took that out. I really wanted an audience to feel like they had no break, just like those jurors, and you're not going to get out of that room until you come to a decision.

Scott Ellis
- Decision
- Audience
- Angry
Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.

David B. Coe
- Thinking
- Writing
- Process

What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.

William Shenstone
- People
- Freedom
- Broken
We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them. ... Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.

Donna Leon
- Believe
- Important
- Long
It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

Billy Joel
- Up
- Give
- Mess Up
Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
- People
- Break
- Bad Guys
My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.

Stephen Spender
- Violence
- Eye
- Path
We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

Caryll Houselander
- Desire
- Lovers
- Mediocrity