Cracks Quotes - Page 22

• My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.

  William Shakespeare

  Sound, Flaws, Thee

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 413

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• Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-' She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the darkness lift at the touch of her fingertips against his lips. But it shivers, and light bleeds in among the cracks.

  Michael Chabon

  Light, Hands, Years

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• There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fall, Boys, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.30, Vintage

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• I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.

  Kid Rock

  Country, Song, Night

  “Kid Rock: What I've Learned” by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. April 20, 2011.

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• I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.

  Brad Pitt

  Character, Problem, Sometimes

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• All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

  Mitch Albom

  Family, Children, Believe

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

  W. H. Auden

  Land, Bed, Desert

  Another Time (1940) "As I Walked Out One Evening"

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• We're dealing with old issues that aren't ours. We carry them and we pass them on to those who come after us. I am hoping to crack some of those.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Issues

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• When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need a creative partner to crack it. And I certainly need and have a lot of creative partners as a director.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Writing, Creative, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Broken Heart, Dawn

  David Herbert Lawrence (1994). “The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.219, Wordsworth Editions

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• It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.

  Rich Mullins

  People, Trying, Impress

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• I get asked to do benefits a lot and I've decided I've got to be a bit more discerning, I can't just do all of them. . . . I got asked to do a benefit for babies born addicted to crack. And I said well, all right, I'll help you raise money for them, but I think we both know what they're gonna spend it on.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Baby, Thinking, Benefits

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• My name recognition has opened doors on the research side. I used to go into crack houses and drug markets and really bad neighborhoods by myself, routinely, and hang out. Sometimes I still do, because I don't want to attract attention. But lately, I've been riding with cops and gaining access to other types of law, like the ATF guys, just because of my name. I guess it's a smarter way to work.

  George Pelecanos

  Doors, Law, Names

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• You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what theyre saying, its quite hard to find cracks.

  Imogen Poots

  Believe, Roles, Hard

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• I’m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It’s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It’s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped really.

  Ice Cube

  Heart, Boys, Nuts

  "Ice Cube's Return to Gangsta [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. January 15, 2014.

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• Dad loves my stuff. No matter how many times my voice cracks or I miss a tap, he doesn't care. He's like some businessman making it to his kid's recital.

  Peter DeLuise

  Dad, Kids, Voice

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• The only negative about doing stand-up is that you're on the road by yourself. When you're on the road with comics we just crack each other up every night going, "Can you believe they're paying us to do this? They're crazy.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Crazy, Believe, Night

  "We Interviewed Jeff Foxworthy | Show at Redfest". Do512 Interview, do512.com. May, 2014.

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• Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and that consequently the prices of all commodities will not cease to rise, everybody becomes eager to buy as much as possible and restrict his cash holdings to minimum size... If the credit expansion is not stopped in time, the boom turns to crack-up boom: the flight into real values begins, and the whole monetary system founders.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Public Opinion, Investing

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• For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.

  Ian Mcewan

  Nuts, Humanity, Analysis

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• Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

  Elliott Abrams

  Government, Dubai, Pressure

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• As for breaking up, once the relationship is over, you never really know what went wrong; you just feel nauseous whenever the subject comes to mind. After a plane crash there's the black box that tells the FAA what caused the crack-up. Too bad there's no black box of relationships.

  Linda Sunshine

  Divorce, Over You, Black

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• I pissed away over ten million dollars
  On dope and crack
  I passed away deader than a door knob
  But now I'm back

  Al Jourgensen

  Dope, Doors, Dollars

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• Although we were not able to shatter that highest and hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it has 18 million cracks in it, and the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time, and we are going to keep working to make it so, today keep with me and stand for me, we still have so much to do together, we made history, and lets make some more.

  Hillary Clinton

  Glasses, Light, Shining

  "Is it sexist to talk about Hillary Clinton's age?" by David Frum, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2014.

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• Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.

  Octavio Paz

  Love Is, Doors, Space

  Octavio Paz (1995). “The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism”, Harcourt

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• Yes I have smoked crack cocaine. But no - do I? am I an addict? - No. Yes, I've made mistakes. All I can do now is apologize and move on.

  Rob Ford

  Mistake, Moving, Apologizing

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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