“One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.” YearsMayLongPresidentWonderBreakEconomyFourEconomicElectionCrisisTrackArguingCampaignsPresident ObamaFour YearsRight TrackEconomic CrisisSurrogatesAmerican Economy Author:Jon Meacham
“Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.” HeartFunnyBreakFourMy HeartHumorousAwardsThank YouSinger SongwritersBreaking My HeartGrammyYou Got Me Author:Sam Smith
“Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.” IfsTogetherStrongBreakFourTeachingSonBedWeakDrawingBrokeScoreDividedSurvivingBundlesDartsDeath Bed Book:Plutarch's Morals Source: Plutarch's Morals
“That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.” YearsPersonsCharacterLastsLosesDecisionBreakFourSeriousPerspectiveDisasterAbsurdBarackAbandonInsightfulFour YearsAdmirableComposure Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.” WalksBreakFourBoxesLegsTheatreAlarmsOaksCoffins Author:Vladimir Mayakovsky
“Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs.” YearsKidsStrongFeltHalfBreakFourSeaRiversCaughtFishesBoatLakesComparisonFishingResentmentPlasticIndifferentFifteenPreferenceWormsThumbsHideousFishermanFifteen YearsMidsummerFifteen Years Old Author:Vance Bourjaily
“I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.” KnowsTwoBreakFourFeetGolfHang In ThereRattlesnakes Author:Sam Snead
“A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in his hands, and the attorney goes into the public records and finds everything right for three or four years back; but after a time he comes to a break in the title. So he finds that the man who supposed he owned it owns not an acre of the ground which belongs to someone else. I trace the title of this world from century to century until I find the whole right vested in God. Now to whom did he give it? To his own children. All are yours.” ThinkingMenWorldGivingYearsChildrenSometimesWholeHandsThreeBreakRecordsFourCenturyThis WorldHe ManPaperLawyerTitlesFour YearsClientsEstatesPapersAttorneyAcres Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage
“I did four independent films during the break between 'Twilight' and 'New Moon.' I haven't even really had time to sit back and process it all. But when you do finally sit back and think about it, it's incredible.” ThinkingFilmProcessBreakFourHavensMoonIndependentIncrediblesTwilightIndependent FilmNew Moon Author:Ashley Greene
“So yeah, anyway - I'm thirty-four and my mother is desperate for me to get married. She thinks settling down is what you should be doing at thirty-four. How would she like it if I turned to her the day she hits eighty and said: 'Hey, Mum - when are you going to break your hip? All your friends are breaking theirs'?” IfsThinkingShouldSaidMotherMarriageBreakFourMarriedYeahHeyHipsSettlingThirtyDesperateMumEightySettling Down Author:Sue Margolis
“Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor” ChildrenLawParentBreakFourCoupleTablesLegsCrashIn-laws Author:Siddharth Katragadda
“Go to bed before 8 p.m. Thieves generally break in between 12 and 2 a.m., so if you spend the evening in useless talk and go to bed late, you are likely to lose your valuables and your reputation as well. Save the firing and the light that will be wasted by staying up late and get up at four in the morning. Have a cold bath and say your prayers, and after you have dressed, give your orders for the day to your wife and children and retainers and so be ready to go on duty before 6 [a.m.]” IfsGivingWellsChildrenLightOrderLosesPrayerBreakMorningFourWifeAdviceReadyDutyGoes OnColdBedLateReputationGet UpEveningUselessStayingThievesBathsOur PrayersFiringRetainers Author:Hojo Soun
“For the Staffel: attack on principle in groups of four or six. When the fight breaks up into a series of single combats, take care that several do not go for one opponent.” CareFightingPrinciplesBreakFourGroupsSixSeriesTake CareOpponentsAviationCombat Author:Oswald Boelcke
“I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at four. I have no structure like that. I am at my computer constantly, more or less attached to it. I live on-line and hate being off-line and don't care how unhealthy it is.” WritingCareHateLinesBreakMorningFourComputerStructureDon't CareNineLunchUnhealthy Author:Augusten Burroughs
“Since I was four, I can't remember wanting to do anything except entertain. And I got some lucky breaks. My daughter Victoria is the same.” I CanRememberBreakFourLuckyDaughterMy DaughterVictoriaLucky Breaks Author:Tony Blackburn
“As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work.” PeopleSoundHoursBreakFourTrainingAverageAthleteLunchMassage Author:Michael Johnson
“When you do a four-camera sitcom, everything is a little schtickier. It’s not necessarily that you pick up bad habits, but there is just a very specific way of acting that you fall into on those kinds of multicamera shows, and you have to break those habits when you go in to do other things.” WayKindLittlesShowsFallActingBreakFourHabitPicksCamerasSitcomBad Habits Author:Mila Kunis
“It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.” ThinkingWritingWellsBookReadingBitsBreakFivePiecesFourReaderBrilliantInsaneBits And Pieces Author:Markus Zusak
“If I get married I get a tax break, if I have a kid I get a tax break, if I get a mortgage I get a tax break. I don't have any kids and I drive a hybrid, I think I should get a tax break. I'm trying to pay off my apartment so I have something tangible. I actually figured out if I paid off my place my reward would be that I would pay an extra four grand a year in taxes.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingYearsWould BeKidsPayBreakFourTaxesMarriedPaidRewardsExtrasApartmentTangibleMortgageHybridTax BreaksPaid Off Author:Bill Burr
“The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.” BreakMorningFourMinutesAthleteMilesEvery Morning Author:Irving Stone
“Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner. If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.” IfsPlayWinningBreakRecordsFourFellowsCompetitionMilesWinnerClassicJust OneGrindSymmetryCan't WinHanging On Author:John Landy
“So that's one of the reasons why we took time between the last one and this one, was to make sure that we could do something that we believe could be equal if not better than the last one. In this case we already have ideas of things we're talking about, and I think in a perfect world it will not be a four year break and it will come out significantly sooner than the last.” IfsThinkingWorldYearsBelieveIdeasReasonLastsPerfectTalkingBreakCasesFourEqualReason WhyFour YearsA Perfect World Author:Bryan Burk
“You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.” IfsMightBreakFourFiguresRedneckYou Might Be A Redneck IfWheelbarrows Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.” ImportantHoursBreakFourTake MeGroove Author:Grimes