I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.
The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.