“Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved and we can never really be saved? Maybe love is really born of our fears. Love is the heart’s desire for a painkiller; a tearful plea for a great big epidural. Yes that’s it: love is the only anesthesia that really works. And so people with broken hearts are really those who are just coming to, and if you’ve ever seen someone come out of general anesthesia, you know that it looks a lot like the beginnings of a broken heart.” PeopleIfsKnowsLooksHeartDoeBigsDesireBornLove IsBrokenLongingSavedDesperateThirstFear Of LoveAnesthesiaPainkillersMaybe LoveEpidurals Author:Jonathan Hull
“Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.” PeopleKnowsHeartSometimesEnoughBigsHappensFilmDiesBlackSituationBrokenTypeLosingHappeningsCancerThings HappenViolentBreastsBlack PeopleLike SomethingBreast Cancer Author:Ava DuVernay
“If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.” IfsShowsBigsSunWrittenRegretHugeBrokenKingsScenePerfectionSpotsGreekDefectsStatuesMonstrousLear Author:Fernando Pessoa
“There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.” ThinkingStillsReasonBigsTurnsCitiesCrimeNew YorkInspireBrokenCivilizationMysteriousParisMeadowsBig CitiesBroken DownTurn Me Author:Woody Allen
“I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or politics or aesthetic taste. I mean, these shifts just aren't fair, and we need an easier way out.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsShouldMeanBigsPartyMarriageBrokenEasierTasteFairsContractsAestheticVowClausesMarriage Vows Author:Jill McCorkle
“Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene its not one-on-one, its a one-on-12. Its very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.” PeopleI CanDifferentBigsSocialStuffLevelsBrokenHealthySceneComfortableMusic IsLuckIntimatePotOld FriendsSupperDifferent LevelsOne On One Author:Feist
“Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages and other financial products. The result is that consumers can't make direct product comparisons, markets aren't competitive, and costs are higher. If the playing field is leveled and the broken market fixed, a lot more money will stay in the pockets of millions of hard-working families. That's real stimulus - money to families, without increasing our national debt.” IfsRealHardBigsResultsMillionsRiskFieldsProductsHard WorkBrokenFineHigherCostPagesDirectAccountsFinancialCreditDebtCardsConsumersFixedPocketsComparisonPrintMore MoneyObscureStimulusMortgageCredit CardPlaying FieldsNational DebtFine PrintChecking Accounts Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word.” PeopleKnowsTryingLooksMadeDifferentWholeStoriesBigsMightTogetherLife IsNumbersPiecesBrokenLettersInfiniteTinyGiantsStringsOnce Upon A TimeBack TogetherBroken Up Author:Paul Murray
“My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.” MenGivingTwoBigsAsksLostCarBrokenCeilingsUpstairsPuncture Author:Ian Holloway
“I sit in the sink (while applying makeup). I do. I've broken more sinks...I sit in the sink, on top of a big square sink in my bathroom with my feet in the basin so I'm very close to the mirror with the good light, and I'm very comfortable. I also manage to put my two phones in the sink so that nothing, but nothing, could get me out of there.” TwoBigsLightFeetBrokenComfortableMirrorsPhonesManageMakeupSquaresBathroom Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“The Big Bang has gone away, but as far as Super String, that is suspicious for me. It all starts out with the notion of Big Bang, which if it were true, starts out with incredibly high temperatures. So they think [we] need to get these high temperatures for this broken symmetry; all this broken symmetry reunited, and we do not have enough energy in the whole galaxy to get to those temperatures, to prove their point. To me, that is the single flaw in Super String theory.” IfsThinkingNeedsEnoughWholeBigsEnergyGoneTheoryBrokenProveNotionStringsFlawsGalaxyBangsSuspiciousTemperatureSymmetryString TheoryReunitedGone Away Author:Edgar Mitchell
“People who know the economy is rigged in favor of big money, people who know that our middle class continues to decline and we have to go outside of establishment politics and economics, people who know that we need to reform a broken criminal justice system and we need comprehensive immigration reform.” PeopleKnowsNeedsBigsJusticeClassEconomyMiddleBrokenEconomicsCriminalsFavorsImmigrationReformMiddle ClassEstablishmentDeclineComprehensiveJustice SystemCriminal JusticeImmigration ReformCriminal Justice SystemRiggedPolitics And Economics Author:Bernie Sanders
“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.” WorldBookBigsUsedBrokenIdealsCatWindowTablesSticksBoundsHeavyFlatsSteadyThickVolumeFinestOld FashionedLeatherNoisyAtlas Author:Mark Twain
“let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love” BigsBornWiseBrokenFairsAll ThingsBiggerDearLengthLiarsTallTruthfulLet It GoVowOathCracked Book:100 Selected Poems Source: 100 Selected Poems
“Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are.” ThinkingWorldLittlesEnoughPlayWholeBigsTurnsUniverseStarsMinesBrokenKeysFitOceanDevilWeightTunesAgain And AgainMiraculousCabinetsTrinketsBroken Things Author:Grant Morrison
“You should be more careful. You could have broken your neck or as big as you are landed on someone and killed them. (Tory)” ShouldBigsBrokenCarefulNecks Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked.” WaySaidBigsMiddleBrokenBreatheSpotsEmptinessDiamondDetachmentNumbness Book:White Oleander Source: White Oleander
“In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.” HeartLongBigsRunningMorningWindBrokenLong TimeWaveBeachRememberedAwakeWind Blowing Book:The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Source: The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
“Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves that burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything - because that's what growing older is.” PersonsRealBigsHateWinningLosesLove IsGrowingBrokenDeserveBurdenWorthyDisappointedSleevesHappily Ever AfterEver AfterGrowing OlderLet Down Author:Dennis Lehane
“America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out.” LittlesFeelingsBigsAmericaHurtBoysFourBrokenDaughterChecksTeethDumbMy DaughterBitesAggressiveToysPuppyMy Boys Author:Johnny Depp
“I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.” WayFeelsShouldDifferentSometimesEnoughBigsSeemsHalfWonderWorryBrokenEasierLetting GoWindowAnd LoveWingsPreparedScreensCrushComparisonSwimmingButterflyClingingHope And LoveBig ChangesBroken Wings Author:Erin Morgenstern