Quotes and Sayings About Breaking Down
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Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves.
-- Albert Camus -
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
-- Alvin Ailey -
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
-- Ben Nicholson -
Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.
-- Brian Selznick -
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
-- Charles Dickens -
For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.
-- Charlie Bewley -
Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily.
-- Charlie Nicholas -
Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.
-- Clare Balding -
If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.
-- Dean Karnazes -
The Arctic is the planet's air conditioner and it's starting to break down.
-- Eban Goodstein -
Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
-- Eleanor Clift -
When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.
-- Fran Tarkenton -
Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.
-- Gro Harlem Brundtland -
I hardly ever cry because that's just not the type of person I am. But I only break down in front of Yunho at times.
-- Jaejoong -
The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.
-- Jerry Brown -
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
-- Jimmy Wales -
Life is simply better when we are with others, and worse when we are isolated. God designed us to be connected, and life breaks down when we are not.
-- John Townsend -
Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.
-- Julian Jaynes -
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.
-- Jürgen Moltmann -
I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.
-- Lauren Bacall -
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
-- Leon Uris -
I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.
-- Lucy Hale -
... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.
-- Mary Heaton Vorse -
That's the beautiful thing about food, it breaks down the barriers.
-- Matt Preston -
It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.
-- Nelson Mandela -
A person has to live in a house for it not to break down.
-- Park Gye-Ok -
The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer.
-- Reinhold Schneider -
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
-- Rick Moody
