Cracks Quotes - Page 29

• As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we're separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Reality, Skulls, Mind

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• When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your very own limitless Being, waving back at you?

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Sky, Clouds

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.280, Shambhala Publications

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• When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant

  Laozi

  Life, Strong, Army

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• Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind.

  Dave Beard

  Race, Weather, Fleeing

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• Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and redemptive. The courage it took to write this story is challenged only by the courage it must have taken to live it. I sit in awe of such unflinching honesty. LOVE JUNKIE is memoir at its very best.

  Hope Edelman

  Honesty, Lost Love, Taken

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• Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money. That may be a wise crack, but I doubt it.

  Morrie Ryskind

  Wise, Doubt, May

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• First I took a crap on the hooker's chest, then I told her I'd pay her a thousand dollars to eat it. She was addicted to crack, so of course she did it. It was so gross, though, it made her throw up, so I said I'd pay her another thousand to lick all that up, too. She started to, but for some reason she started crying as she was doing it, saying, 'I went to college! I have a degree!' Oh man, it was hilarious. I don't know if it was technically sex because I just beat off on her face, but definitely one of my most intense orgasms.

  Zach Braff

  Sex, College, Men

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• Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

  Peter Saville

  Eye, Quality, Different

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• When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dog, Morning, Humor

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• Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Life Changing, Book, Heart

  Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.63, Macmillan

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• I'll tell you what I'd do if it were up to me: I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available. Initially I would keep the prices low enough to destroy the drug trade. Once that objective was attained I would keep raising the prices, very much like the excise duty on cigarettes, but I would make an exception for registered addicts in order to discourage crime. I would use a portion of the income for prevention and treatment. And I would foster social opprobrium of drug use.

  George Soros

  Drug Use, Order, Income

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• He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice needlessly loud. “I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink.

  John Green

  Drinking, Voice, Long

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.185, Penguin

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• Churches crack me up. They're like money, a conspiracy of faith. Like everyone agreed to believe that not only is there a God, but he comes down and checks on folks, so long as they hang in certain places, put up alters, burn lots of candles and incense, and perform sit-stand-kneel and other wacky rituals that'd make a coven of witches not look OCD.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Believe, Long, Church

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.136, Delacorte Press

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• It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.

  Irvine Welsh

  Phones, Remember, Payment

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.19, Random House

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• If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.

  Cennino Cennini

  Style, Mountain, Looks

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• In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Matter, Lasts

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• Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

  Ridley Scott

  Directors, Scripts, Screenwriting

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• Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.

  Andrew Fastow

  Mark, Accounting

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• I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn't changed that much.

  Paul Westerberg

  Voice, Sound, Scratches

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years on his book, have someone buy it for their Kindle for £6.99 and then see it shared with everyone in the world for free.

  Simon Armitage

  Book, Years, People

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• Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

  Melinda Gates

  Fall, School, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.

  Aaron Huey

  Everest

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• If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.

  Tom Waits

  Play, Sound, Frying Pans

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2006.

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• The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Self, Oneness, Diversity

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.

  Len Goodman

  Iphone, Multitasking, Able

  "This much I know: Len Goodman". Interview With Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.

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