“Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.” DreamPainLife IsDiesEvilHappenedBrokenCostBirdYour DreamsHindsightHold FastExact Sciences Author:Thomas Jefferson
“People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there was a new configuration of bourgeois values in the U.S. and an acceptance among the bourgeoisie of contemporary art as an idea. I think that bourgeois people are horrible.” PeopleThinkingArtIdeasValuesHappenedAcceptanceBrokenHorribleContemporaryManagersFundBourgeoisBourgeoisieContemporary ArtOpportunistConfigurationHedge Fund Author:Liam Gillick
“I now realize that a broken back, failed surgery, and Stage IV cancer are three of the greatest things that ever happened to me. Three of the most positive, transformative things that ever happened to me. They helped me become a vastly better person than I ever was, and I am eternally grateful for that.” PersonsThreeRealizingHappenedStageBrokenGratefulCancerSurgeryBetter Person Author:Brad Willis
“What does Obama mean keep working on closing Gitmo? It's a broken promise. Obama said we were gonna close Gitmo the first day he was in office and it never happened.” FirstsMeanDoeSaidHappenedBrokenPromiseOfficeClosingBroken PromisesGitmo Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a language that no one has yet understood. Through time, her secret codes have gradually been broken. Her mud and lava is a message from the past. Of time to come, she says much, but who listens?” LittlesEarthPastLanguageSecretRecordsHappenedBrokenMessagesUnderstoodAncientCodeMudLava Book:Weight Source: Weight
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.” PeopleIfsWayLifeYoungCertainTurnsGrowsFeltChallengesWonderBreakFailingHappenedSadnessBrokenDepressionSurpriseI RealizedLovelyFixedLife LessonPeople In Your Life Book:Life After God Source: Life After God
“Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.” PeopleKnowsWayWantDoneSeemsRememberMovingForgetHappenedCryBrokenFindingsHolesForget ItMournJust Move On Author:Sarah Dessen
“Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.” VoiceHappenedBrokenNewsSpreadFeaturesTragicSpokesPlatesAlasWipeAlarmsOld FriendsBracesFriarsRedwall Book:Redwall Source: Redwall
“Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him” HeartMotherFatherBehindsHappenedBrotherBrokenRealizationShootingBelovedStationsGrandfatherDrowningHalfwayCorpsesOystersMutteringInternmentZincBeloved Brother Author:Michael Chabon
“We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.” KnowsFeelsMomentsRememberLyingHappenedBrokenMouthsTestsBreathsCloudsBoxesWideHolesSnowIceCurseGirlfriendCheatingDriversBusLunchEnginesFeel BetterEssaysZombieJuiceTobaccoStainsCrawlingCondomSneakersGreaseCrayonFlakesTiltShuffleBus Driver Author:Laurie Halse Anderson
“He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.” FeelingsSawsPiecesHappenedBrokenForgottenGiantsBlank Book:Wise Blood: A Novel Source: Wise Blood: A Novel
“I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.” ReasonLastsPastLyingForceCausesEffortGoneClearHappenedEffectsEventsBrokenOne DayHorseBreathsCarefulSnowFixedSatWetYardsFragmentsFixingLooking Down Author:Robin Hobb
“He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsEndsHomeHandsSidesHappenedHairBrokenComfortStudiosLikesKneesThe End Of The DayComing HomeWrestlingPantsWetAnklesKnucklesFoxholes Author:Tom Waits
“Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don't understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren't from here, but that are so real.” KnowsFeelsHeartRealSoulPastMemoriesGoneHappenedBrokenBeatsBuiltWingsMy SoulFragileShells Book:As I Wake Source: As I Wake