Cracked Up To Be Quotes

#1. Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.

Flea

#2. Goodbyes weren't all they were cracked up to be

Abbi Glines

#3. Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Julian Barnes

#4. They make a fuss about Hogsmeade, but I assure you, Harry, it's not all it's cracked up to be. All right, the sweetshop's rather good, and Zonko's Joke Shop's frankly dangerous, and yes, the Shrieking Shack is always worth a visit, but really, Harry, apart from that, you're not missing anything.

J.K. Rowling

#5. I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.

Kate Atkinson

#6. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.

Anne Lamott

#7. Vindication and horror. Sometimes being right isn't all it's cracked up to be: how

Peter Heller

#8. Being mature isn't what it's cracked up to be.

Joanne Fluke

#9. One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

Gene Robinson

#10. Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

Dave Madden

#11. Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.

John Wooden

#12. Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

Arabella Weir

#13. Endings, it seems, are not all they're cracked up to be.

Rachel Joyce

#14. But, Mummy, couldn't God make another wars, but bad people."
"Oh!" I said.
I was disappointed about that. I began to think that God wasn't quite what he was cracked up to be.

Frank O'Connor

#15. Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Princess Diana

#16. Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don't do that anymore.

Elmore Leonard

#17. Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. That's innocence.

Joe Hill

#18. I have observed over a long lifetime that mental stability is not all it's cracked up to be.

Neal Barrett Jr.

#19. Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

#20. Reality really isn't as dull as it's cracked up to be.

Estelle

#21. Well, let me tell you something, darling: money, elite social status and the power they confer are every bit as wonderful as they're cracked up to be.

Elizabeth Kelly

#22. Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

John Wooden

#23. ...as a woman who was raised with the idea that the world was at my fingertips, that anything I wanted could be mine for the taking, on the eve of my thirtieth birthday I am ready to stand up and say that trying to have it all is not all it's cracked up to be.

Anna Mitchael

#24. If you feel that love isn't all it's cracked up to be, then you've never truly possessed it. For true love is the most desirable treasure in existence. It is a glory worth any sacrifice.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#25. Being a nun wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the sex was shit.

Warren Ellis

#26. Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.

Richard Carlson

#27. I used to routinely turn down things that might compound the impression that I was some kind of vacuous blonde. But now, when I look back, I think I should have done them because I would be very rich - being taken seriously isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Mariella Frostrup

#28. Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

Anne Lamott

#29. I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

Jeff Bezos

#30. The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

Eric Roth

#31. Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Larry Gelbart

#32. One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be.

Ben Bernanke

#33. It's true that I said there are miracles that only happen if you keep fighting. But Yukiteru... There's another thing you need to know about miracles. Most of them aren't all they're cracked up to be.

Sakae Esuno

#34. Being God is not all it's cracked up to be, and it's not as easy as one would think it would be. You'd think the deck would be really stacked in your favor as God, but of course, I've run into some pretty big obstacles and problems.

Misha Collins

#35. Yeah, but most of the time I think being an adult is not all it's cracked up to be. I've always wanted to postpone growing up for as long as possible.

Adrianne Noel

#36. He smiled. "Normal isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Cassandra Clare

#37. Slowly turning into Darth Vader was not all it was cracked up to be.

Jennifer Foehner Wells

#38. Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong

#39. Sometimes in life, dreams aren't all they're cracked up to be. When they're not, though, there's usually another dream - a better dream - waiting for you in the wings.

Catherine Gayle

#40. I think that you can get more passionate about somebody the longer you're with them and the more you know them and the more you go through together. Being married is definitely better than it's cracked up to be I think.

Emily Mortimer

#41. Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

Alan Alda

#42. being a hero is not all its cracked up to be." - Conor Kelly

Ali Isaac

#43. Youth isn't all it's cracked up to be either."
"Then you're doing it wrong.

Rachel Hauck

#44. I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

Selima Hill

#45. Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Alafair Burke

#46. Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

Mark Twain

#47. Spring is sweet, the baby season; summer is the teenage season -- too much energy, too much growth and beauty and heat and late nights, none of them what they are cracked up to be. Fall is the older season, a more seasoned season. The weather surrounds you instead of beating down on you.

Anne Lamott

#48. So if it resonates with fans - and that's always the bottom line, fans have the final say - then I'm sure we'll see more of it. I'd be honored to do it. I saw the first one today, and I cracked up. I literally laughed out loud. I saw how the sausage was made, and I still laughed.

Phil Morris

#49. It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing ... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Tom Stoppard

#50. I half-expect to check out, but I'm really there for it. It's not like at the dance, angry and forced. It's terrible in its gentleness and he's just wasting it on me.

Courtney Summers

#51. At eleven, Kate woke Jake up when she went searching in the cooler for juice.
"You know, you used to be peaceful," he grumbled.
"I can't believe you were ever married." Kate said, as she cracked the can open. "What did you do, make her stand in the corner all the time?

Jennifer Crusie

#52. Only to be expected!' Elinor's voice almost cracked. Belligerent as a Bull Terrier, she marched up to him.

Cornelia Funke

#53. Like I'd let you captain me.

Courtney Summers

#54. There are the class clowns that are disruptive and the kids laugh and you earn the teacher's disdain, I was the kind of class clown that also cracked the teacher up. I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny.

Jason Mantzoukas

#55. If you put a clock in a bottle,
with time it will crack,
as like money, as like love,
as like a beautiful mind,
empty of a soul.

Anthony Liccione