Cracks Quotes - Page 25

• You watch the news these days? It's unbelievable. You think you just walk out your door, you're immediately gonna be raped by some crack-addicted, AIDS-infected pitbull.

  Bill Hicks

  Thinking, Doors, Watches

  "Bill Hicks: Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine.

  Al Gore

  Powerful, Addiction, Cocaine

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• Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Goal, Feminism, Our Society

  Shulamith Firestone (2003). “The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution”, p.61, Macmillan

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• My heart is a teacup with hairline cracks. I feel like I have to walk real carefully so it won't get shaken and just all shatter and break.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Real, Heart, Break

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Missing Angel Juan”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

  Bram Stoker

  Nuts, Standing, Hard

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Penny Dreadfuls: Tales of Horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.86, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.

  Mark Nepo

  Dark, Surrender, Process

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.113, Conari Press

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• As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

  Philip Yancey

  Play, Long, Trying

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I think when you're live on TV in an unscripted environment a lot slips through the cracks of your real self. People can read my face, they know what I'm thinking.

  Andy Cohen

  Real, Thinking, Self

  "Andy Cohen shares his days and nights in new book". Interview with Alicia Rancilio, www.washingtontimes.com. November 12, 2014.

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• When a house is tottering to its fall,
  The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part,
  One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads,
  And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.

  Ovid

  Lying, Fall, House

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• And Lopate's anthology helped a lot too. It came out the same year I started grad school, and I remember the book's publication feeling eventful and celebratory. It got a ton of attention for giving voice to this form that had sort of slipped between the cracks. That was exciting to see.

  John D'Agata

  Book, School, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't have much interest in writing if there are not opportunities to crack open the inherited forms. The writing I love to read most does this as well. I'm a form junkie.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Writing, Opportunity, Doe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The film [Sightseers] is really the story of the journey of a relationship, so the killings are almost a metaphor for the trials they go through. We wanted people to identify with the experience of going on holiday and having a quarrel with your wife, boyfriend, whatever. We knew if we didn't crack that it would not be watchable as a film.

  Alice Lowe

  Holiday, Journey, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I knew South Africa was going to change; you can't keep people down forever. It's unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did.

  Letta Mbulu

  People, Forever, South

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a Wall Street banker.

  Ann Coulter

  Mother, Wall, Bankers

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• One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses.

  Florence King

  Artist, America, Order

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• My girlfriend loves to eat chocolate. She's always eating chocolate. And she likes to joke she's got a chocolate addiction. You know, she'd be like keep me away from those chocolate bars, I'm addicted to them. And it's really annoying. So one day I put her in the car and I drove her downtown and I pointed out a crack addict. And I said you see that honey? Why can't you be that skinny?

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Girlfriend, Addiction, Car

  "Anthony Jeselnik: The Dark Prince Of Comedy". "Ask Me Another" with Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. August 14, 2014.

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• I feel like you know what you're going to be good at when you're older based on what you like when you're younger. When I was younger my best friend was Tony, this kid Tony, and he loved rocks. He was always playing with rocks, counting them, and now he's a crack head.

  Amy Schumer

  Kids, Rocks, My Best Friend

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• I am the hit-maker, the record-breaker. I got style and grace, a pretty face. I'll make your back crack, your liver quiver.

  Dusty Rhodes

  Grace, Style, Faces

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• When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.

  Curtis Jackson

  School, Killing, Selling

  "50 Cent Is Being Called A Child Abuser For Boxing With His Son" by Delenda Joseph, uproxx.com. December 17, 2016.

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• I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

  Rick Moody

  Fall, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don't let it collect until the wall develops cracks.

  Jo Nesbo

  Wall, Long, Dams

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• I played a major role in the spread of crack cocaine, the marketing of crack cocaine, the glamorization of crack cocaine. But it's hard to say that it was totally my fault. My judge in Cincinnati told me, "Mr. Ross, I know that the prosecutor and the media and the DEA all want to blame you for this problem, but I sentenced my first drug dealer the year you were born, so I know you're not the cause. This is a problem we've had since before you were born."

  Rick Ross

  Media, Years, Judging

  Source: www.brownpoliticalreview.org

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• She didn't know what Liam made his coffee with, but it had to be magical sparkles and crack beans, because it was the most delicious stuff she'd ever tasted.

  Rachel Caine

  Coffee, Stuff, Sparkle

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Two Weeks' Notice”, p.29, Allison & Busby

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• I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!

  Jim Butcher

  Frustration, Skulls, Clubs

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• There's a tap on the door then. We all exchange looks, Tommy Falk's as uncertain as the rest of ours. No one moves, so I finally wipe my hands off on my pants, go to the door, and open it a crack. Sean stands on the other side, one hand in his trouser pocket, the other holding a loaf of bread. I wasn't prepared for it to be Sean, so my stomach does a neat little trick that feels like either hunger or escaping.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Escaping, Doors

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