“I've noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn't really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it happens. You say something a bit off-center and see if they react. If they get it, they push it a bit further. Then it's your turn again. And theirs. And so on, until it's banter. Once it's banter, it's friendship.” IfsHappensTurnsBitsBreakMagicBanterGetting Along Author:Meg Rosoff
“It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.” WritingImportantHappensBreakExcitingTablesThings HappenGenreExciting Things Author:Lev Grossman
“Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.” FirstsBigsHappensActionActingStepsBreakPlansPrejudicePlanningFirst StepsBiasBiasedSmall Steps Author:Indira Gandhi
“Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.” PeopleWorldWayHappensBeautifulHumanityBreakHumilityHigherSmartIntelligenceDefenseSurrenderKneesFallenCollectivesFinding YourselfFalling ApartNobilityBreak ThroughVery BeautifulLecturer Author:Marianne Williamson
“Sometimes having no script, having no idea what is going to happen next, having no map, might be the way to go. Because life just happens, and when it does, how you handle it will teach you more about who you are than any class or test ever can. The best preparation for the rest of your life is, maybe, no preparation at all. Dive right in. Make mistakes. Break a few rules. Wing it.” WayDoeIdeasSometimesMightHappensLife IsNextMistakeClassTeachBreakTestsWho You AreWingsScriptsHandlePreparationNo IdeaMaking MistakesMapsRest Of Your Life Book:From What I Remember Source: From What I Remember
“There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it happens that what we call madness is both reasonable and just. It is so. Yes. A little reason is good for us, a little more makes wise men of some of us--but when our reason over-grows us and we reach too far, something breaks and we go insane.” MenWayHumansKindMayLittlesReasonHappensGrowsBrainBreakWiseMadnessInsaneReasonableHuman Brain Book:Works by James Oliver Curwood (Illustrated, 22 books) Source: Works by James Oliver Curwood (Illustrated, 22 books)
“In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I'm going to get outside the pocket and move ... West Coast, East Coast. It doesn't matter. I'm taking off if I have to, to make things happen.” IfsMatterHappensMovingBreakWestEastThings HappenPocketsOffenseCoastBreaking DownMake Things HappenWest CoastEast Coast Author:Michael Vick
“Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pools or oceans because your thighs were jiggly or you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen.” PeopleIfsHeartBigsHappensKidsImaginationSpaceBreakNovelCreativeNiceWrittenOceanComfortableWake UpWarmMemoirRadicalStaringWhat IfSwimmingPoolPerfectionismThighsBreak Your HeartJuicyCreative LifeSillinessPleasing PeopleStaring Into Space Author:Anne Lamott
“And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.” HardDoneShowsHappensBreakInvolvedComplexesIntenseHardestGoodbyeSaying GoodbyeSaying Goodbye Is HardGoodbye LoveNorthernersHard To Say Goodbye Author:Genevieve Gorder
“Id be lying if I said Hollywood wasnt still an ambition; its everyones, isnt it? Youre getting paid very well, youre working with great actors and great directors - who wouldnt want to be a part of that? But its not going to break my heart if it doesnt happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.” IfsWantWellsHeartSaidStillsHappensLyingActorsBreakMy HeartDirectorsAmbitionHollywoodPaidGood WorkDoing GoodGreat ActorsBreaking My Heart Author:Max Beesley
“People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's not gonna happen.” PeopleShouldHappensBreakLike YouFighterGrandparentDivorcedFoo Fighters Author:Dave Grohl
“He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country we encourage 'creativity' among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow 'too much.' Well, Before the Revolution is too much and that is what is great about it. Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.” WellsHeartKindArtRealCountryEnoughHappensBreakCreativityToo MuchTalentRevolutionQuantityMediocreBurstingUndisciplined Author:Pauline Kael
“When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.” MenFirstsBigsHappensRunningAbleEarthTurnsGrowsSportsBreakBabyLegsLimitationFlatsSailingBreaking DownMarathonMustacheRunning Marathon Author:Kathrine Switzer
“Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.” LooksShowsFeelingsHappensBreakGoneMiddleWorstBandFighterEquipmentBreaking DownVansMusic LoveLove Of My LifeTime Of My LifeGone AwayWorst TimesFoo FightersDisbanded Author:Dave Grohl