#break

The day breaks not, it is my heart. ↗

— John Donne

#day #heart

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#break #figuratively #hammers #i #i love

People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day. ↗

— Lee Grant

#after #break #communication #couple #day

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#breaker #capable #certainly #commandments #first

It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason. ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#find #get #happened #heartbreaking #i

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. ↗

— Michel Foucault

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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres. ↗

— John Dryden

#breaking #down #perseveres #shame #spirit

When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#break #come #down #experience #feeling

Strong efforts may be made to deny the place, to silence the authentic, but the spirit of things will break through that silence. ↗

— John Haynes

#break #deny #efforts #made #may

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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