Cracks Quotes - Page 27

• Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Mind, World

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.

  Helen McCloy

  Heart, Cities, Humanity

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• I'd crack up without my music. It's the best company you can have, really. It don't say 'no' or 'maybe,' or ask no questions.

  Terry McMillan

  Music, Company, Asks

  Terry McMillan (2012). “Disappearing Acts”, p.21, Penguin

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• Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.

  Sue Grafton

  Character, Views, Water

  Sue Grafton (1992). “"I" is for Innocent”, p.208, Macmillan

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• Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.

  Sally Stanford

  Patience, Doors, Long

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• I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end.

  Bailey White

  Summer, Wall, Sleep

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• When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through the cracks. If a woman filmmaker makes film about war, like [Kathryn] Bigelow, they say "Okay, this is a war film, it has ninety percent men in it, we know what to do with it." But then she still gets attacked for not doing it properly. [...] But even though it bothers me I don't want to dwell on the sex and gender thing.

  Signe Baumane

  Sex, War, Fall

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

  Nikki Sixx

  Honesty, Black And White, Color

  Source: lavidaleica.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

  Cornel West

  Needs, Way, Drink

  Interview with Itabari Njeri, articles.latimes.com. October 22, 1995.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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