[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way for me - this lovely thing that blows up and is gone. It all goes back to this desire to record things before they disappear - the original reason we take pictures, right?
— Laurel Nakadate
Eye-opening Records Breaking quotations
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records
I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.
The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.
It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.
Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.
We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird.
The whole point is, give me a break with the standards.
You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.
As you get older you will gain a bit more control over everything.
Don't let anyone, even your parents, break you. Find good people who care about you and surround yourself with just them. If you can't find them at first, find good music and fall into it, let it hold you until they come. I truly hope you enjoy the new record.
If everything works out for me & if it's my special day I'll try to break AB de Villiers record for the fastest hundred.
We'll put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds' name, sure, as soon as we put one next to Babe Ruth's name. Getting to break records before black people were allowed to play? Excuse me, where is that asterisk?
Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.
The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much more painful if we wait until there is a climate crisis before recognising that more than half of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to remain in the ground.
If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
I could probably live in Bali the rest of my life and completely live in the sticks and have a f - king moped and make a record every couple of years and not step in public and break even like I do anyway. That's really tempting.
If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home.
If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.
Many people know that Ethiopia is poor.
When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.
I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner. If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.
Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.
Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.
Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together.
Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
[Wayne Rooney] has to be viewed as a great England striker if he breaks Sir Bobby Charlton's record. Scoring goals at international level is much more difficult than it was a few years back because even the lesser teams are well organised and don't concede too many goals these days.
So I'm running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can't, I can't figure this out..There were record breaking temperatures across the, 72 in New York City, 69 in Boston on Saturday. A lot of people wondering is it global warming or something much simpler?
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
It's now come out just before his record-breaking 100-meter dash, gold medalist Usain Bolt ate at McDonald's. Apparently he timed his meal so when the race started he would have exactly 9.63 seconds to get to a toilet.
All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.
Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes and devastating weather patterns that global warming is beginning to set off around the world.. the frequency and intensity of which are breaking records thousands of years old.
I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago.
That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.