(164 quotes found)
“Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.”
Cherrie Moraga
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
Bertrand Russell
“Common sense is just as good a critic of the lottery as any statistical breakdown”
Hunter Baker
“Every generation is convinced there has been a deplorable breakdown of manners”
Byron Dobell
“A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.”
Art Buchwald
“They actually came to me over a year ago, and I was having an ever-so-mild nervous breakdown at that point, and felt I needed to just stop. So I went, "I can't look at anything right now, I need to stop." I wasn't really having a nervous breakdown, I'd just done too much stuff back to back. And so a whole lot of time went by, and they called and said, "Are you ready now to take a look at this script?" So I did and then met with him in the UK.”
Guy Pearce
“Sometimes we just have to have a total and complete breakdown before we can move on, change or get help. Maybe this has to happen in order for us to have the chance to put the pieces back together in a different way. An opportunity to decide which pieces we need to keep, which ones we need to discard and which ones need to be added. A chance to be the Phoenix rising up through the ashes stronger than before.”
Kimberly Bandy
“We were able to capitalize on their defensive breakdowns. We were able to dribble in and take some shots.”
Becky Steele
“Nobody expects anything, nobody hopes for anything-we are all crushed by a kind of nervous breakdown.”
Arnaud Montebourg
“We never got in sync. Our shots weren't falling. We were out of sync offensively, and defensively, we had breakdowns.”
Andy Harmon
