Cracks Quotes - Page 21

• The impulse to freeze the system, to try to tape all the cracks and staple all the cleavages, to ensure that nobody has to explain to their kid why Christmas this year is going to be a lousy Christmas, that is one of our greatest dangers.

  Will Wilkinson

  Kids, Years, Trying

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• As Indian women, we are always balancing work, life, home, etc. It's important to know that while juggling rubber balls and glass balls, the former may bounce back when you miss, but the glass balls will crack if you let them fall. So prioritise, prioritise, prioritise.

  Nita Ambani

  Fall, Home, Glasses

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• I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.

  Andy Rooney

  Baby, Believe, Giving

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.105, PublicAffairs

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• A glacier rattles in the cupboard, the desert sighs in the bed, and the crack in the teacup opens a door to the land of the dead. The Maya call this Xibalba (Shibalba), the road to the dimension of the dead.

  Terence McKenna

  Doors, Land, Bed

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• It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

  Gene Simmons

  Destination, Sidewalk, Hard

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• As Cindy Sheehan was gathering public sympathy as the Gold Star mom against the killing in Iraq, the Republican party decided to import an easier target to pummel. So they brought over the 'I-salute-your-courage, Saddam' religious fundamentalist crack-pot who can't tell us where the money went.

  Greg Palast

  Mom, Religious, Stars

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• Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways.

  Pico Iyer

  Moving, Thinking, Suffering

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• Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Light, Attention, Pay

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• The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.

  Sarah Dessen

  Memories, Perfect, Stories

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• We're in a society where no one's putting a gun to your head and making you use your phone, but some people start to crack. "I Want the Heartbeat" is about the downside of it. People can and do break up friendships and relationships because of the internet, and that can't be good. You have to find a balance. You can't let it be the boss of you.

  Johnny Marr

  Heart, Gun, Phones

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Pain, Grief, Feelings

  “The Unsikable Jennifer Aniston” by Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. October 10, 2006.

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• Let someone else take a crack at [your story]. Sometimes, even after time has passed, we're just too close to the thing. You don't want to kill your darlings or, maybe it's the opposite: you just want to kill all of it with cleansing fire. Let someone else confirm or veto your feelings. They'll also bring new questions and complexities to the table, too.

  Chuck Wendig

  Writing, Fire, Opposites

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• Who wouldn't prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in a studio makeup department?

  Rita Hayworth

  Coffee, Makeup, Bed

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've heard a lot of crack stories. I heard a RZA crack story, up close and personal, over a platter of 100 chicken wings that only him and his friend ate. It was a good day.

  Vince Staples

  Good Day, Wings, Stories

  Source: www.complex.com

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• And within the house
  ashes are being stuffed into my marriage,
  fury is lapping the walls,
  dishes crack on the shelves,
  a strangler needs my throat,
  the daughter has ceased to eat anything.

  Anne Sexton

  Daughter, Wall, Divorce

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• She wasn't that tough on me, but I think she was often a little frightened - being a single parent. So it begets this quality of desired absoluteness that doesn't really exist. My sister could crack her up. She'd be getting into trouble and put the Steve Martin arrow through her head and mom would start to laugh. I didn't have the same sort of wiliness.

  Ashley Judd

  Mom, Thinking, Arrows

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• There's a lot of dark horror, and a lot of sci-fi fantasy that's great, but what gets hyped a lot the big stuff. The most expensive stuff gets hyped a lot, and I love it, don't get me wrong, but there's things that fall through the cracks.

  Robert Englund

  Fall, Dark, Stuff

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• Everything we do understand about the universe - the periodic table of elements, Einstein's laws, Newton's laws, all of chemistry, all of biology - that's 4 percent of the universe. We got to the moon on the 4 percent we do understand. We landed on Mars on the 4 percent we do understand. So the day we crack the nut of the rest of that 95 percent... Oh my gosh.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Law, Nuts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A movie's a movie - you know I'm a massive old film buff - but it's still something to me, music: I can still close my eyes like I was when I was a teenager, and it can still make me weep or make me angry or make me, even if it's bad music, crack up.

  Karen Elson

  Teenager, Eye, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
  [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]

  Plautus

  Shells, Kernel

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• I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

  William Shakespeare

  Break, Oath, Asks

  1607 Pericles to Helicanus. Pericles, sc.2, l.125-6.

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• Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there.

  Jennifer James

  Hurt, Names, People

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• Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, America, Python

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.496, Lulu.com

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• [On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czarina it had something to do with a plaid couch.

  Kate Clinton

  House, Drug, Awful

  Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.65, Bywater Books

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• Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.

  David Hoffman

  Thinking, Doors, Wind

  "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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