Broke Quotes

A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don’t need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but I was still very vain and glamorous. And I still am.

Yes,' she said. 'The Great Prophecy has begun.' Pandemonium broke out.

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.

When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.

Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke.

He just got his neck broke one time, I'm not tryna break his neck again, that's not what I fight for. I fight to have fun, not to hurt nobody.

When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family.

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.

Kings that made laws, first broke 'em.

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.

Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away?

What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.

What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in.

Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.

I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

I broke my arm trying to fold a bed. It wasn't the kind that folds.

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration

Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.

The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.