Top 100 Crawford Quotes
#1. My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
Carl Crawford
#2. To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
Bill Crawford
#3. It's not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
Bill Crawford
#4. I used the Deep Cleansing Masque on my wedding day because I wanted everything - including my complexion - to be perfect!
Cindy Crawford
#5. I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren't actors who have a rough time, too, and I don't know if the ratio is any different.
Johnny Crawford
#6. When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
Bill Crawford
#7. I always knew I wanted to have children. When I met my husband, Rande, I thought, 'This is the guy.' When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.
Cindy Crawford
#8. We can't always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
Bill Crawford
#10. The Democratic party is one that I've always observed. I have struggled greatly in life from the day I was born, and I am honored to be a part of something that focuses on working class citizens and molds them into a proud specimen.
Joan Crawford
#12. Making changes isn't about stopping the problem, it's about starting the solution.
Bill Crawford
#13. Love is fire. but whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house,you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
#14. [Clause in her will:] It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.
Joan Crawford
#15. Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
Bill Crawford
#16. Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.
Joan Crawford
#18. Genuine connection to others shows up in the vivid colors of defiance and forgiveness, reverence and rebellion, fighting and fucking: the real stuff.
Matthew B. Crawford
#19. I think if people are passionate about something, it could be real estate or biochemistry, and that spark gets turned on in them, everyone's beautiful in that zone.
Cindy Crawford
#20. Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.
Bill Crawford
#21. Stress is a signal that something needs to change. Suffering, is when we don't make the change!
Bill Crawford
#22. The 1930s Hollywood was capable of hurting me so much. The things about Hollywood that could hurt me (when I first came) can't touch me now. I suddenly decided that they shouldn't hurt me - that was all.
Joan Crawford
#23. I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
Sam Crawford
#24. Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.
Sam Crawford
#25. If you expect me to read your mind you're going to have to think more clearly.
Spuds Crawford
#26. All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.
Bill Crawford
#28. Regardless of what is being discussed ... the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
Bill Crawford
#29. As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.'
Cindy Crawford
#30. To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.
Bill Crawford
#31. When Noah Crawford wanted something, you couldn't bat a lash around him or you were going to miss seeing how he got it. Not that I was complaining or anything.
C.L. Parker
#32. As for his sudden change of heart, he had suddenly remembered the end of Mansfield Park, and how Edmund fell out of love with Mary Crawford and came to care for Fanny. Dulcie must surely know the novel well, and would understand how such things can happen.
Barbara Pym
#33. When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life!
Bill Crawford
#34. To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind ... Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.
Bill Crawford
#35. I refer you to my earlier statement. I love you, Ryder. It doesn't shut off because you run away. It doesn't die because you want it to in order to protect me. You think you're destroying me, but loving you strengthens me. Heals the broken.
Melyssa Winchester
#36. Energy? What energy? Ha ha, the only energy I know is energy drinks. I'm totally like everyone else.
C.N. Crawford
#37. Crawford was home for a month from the hospital, the chest pains came again in the night. Instead of calling an ambulance and going through it all again, he chose simply to roll over to the solace of his late wife's side of the bed.
Thomas Harris
#38. Besides, men aren't worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we'd be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you're the only person you can trust.
S.R. Crawford
#39. When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense ... it just reacts.
Bill Crawford
#40. To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
Bill Crawford
#41. Goal training is important. If there's a 5K walk in the community, train for that.
Cindy Crawford
#42. Yet this disburdening gives us fewer occasions for the experience of direct responsibility.
Matthew B. Crawford
#43. I was definitely very intimidated, but the instant Meryl Streep said 'Hi' to me, it all went away.
Lilla Crawford
#45. A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.
Francis Marion Crawford
#46. Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want ... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
Bill Crawford
#47. And, echoing Jerott, 'So why in hell have you come?' Philippa's gaze, bright and owlish and obstinate, held his to the end.
'To look after the baby,' she answered. And disconcertingly, after a second's blank pause, Francis Crawford flung back his damp head and laughed.
Dorothy Dunnett
#48. If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.
Crawford Kilian
#49. I wish to make my fortune with you.' 'Well, you can forget about that, for a start,' said Francis Crawford. 'And if your place in Paradise has been written, then for God's sake hang on to it. Because we're going in the opposite direction.
Dorothy Dunnett
#50. They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
Cindy Crawford
#51. I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.
Cindy Crawford
#52. You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas ... and the biggest decision is when do you go mountain bike riding.
George W. Bush
#53. Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
Bill Crawford
#55. As a young father it's important to remember that, when you're at the beach, there's a BIG difference between telling your five year old son to just go pee in the ocean and telling him to get in the water at least waist deep and then pee in the ocean.
Spuds Crawford
#56. Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.
Roger Crawford
#57. Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
Bill Crawford
#58. Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.
Cindy Crawford
#59. The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
#60. I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you're done for.
Chace Crawford
#61. Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
Joan Crawford
#63. You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
Joan Crawford
#64. Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
Bill Crawford
#65. The most important thing is playoff sex ... er ... um ... I mean success
Marc Crawford
#66. I don't see my skin aging. I see my skin looking as good, or better, than it did ten years ago ... and that makes me smile.
Cindy Crawford
#67. Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ?
Bill Crawford
#68. Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject.
Crawford Kilian
#69. I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'
Lilla Crawford
#70. Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
Bette Davis
#71. Ohhh, OH no you didn't!" he screams. "Nobody touches the TERRY!" Then he starts punching himself in he face. This kid really is crazy! I may not even have to fight him. He's doing it for me, and I'm winning!
Brent Crawford
#72. People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
Bill Crawford
#73. One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.
Bill Crawford
#74. The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).
Manny Farber
#75. Eataly is the greatest - it's like food galore there. They have all of these little stations, like a pasta area and a pizza area. And they have the best gelato.
Lilla Crawford
#76. There are two ways to make someone important in our lives ... we can either love them or hate them.
Bill Crawford
#78. For me to simply tell you to find your life's purpose, would only worsen your anxiety, not make it better. But that's not what I want you to do. I simply want you to realise that there is something to be found. That your calling is still out there, and that's why you might be unhappy.
S.R. Crawford
#80. If you had planned to come to Crawford in the middle of the hot summer in August, no one would have come with you, if you had planned it. But spontaneously, we have now been here 11 days in the most intense heat that you can imagine of west Texas. Some of the most intense heat thunderstorms.
Ann Wright
#81. You can't use stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry to deal with your stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry. It's like pulling up to a burning building with a flame thrower. The energy of the problem can't be the energy behind a successful solution.
Bill Crawford
#82. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.
Joan Crawford
#83. Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
Bill Crawford
#84. 'Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.
Carl Crawford
#85. The oceans cover 65% of the globe's surface and, as there are up to 10 billion viruses per one litre of sea water, the whole ocean contains around 4 x 10 30 - enough, when laid side by side, to span 10 million light years.
Dorothy H. Crawford
#86. The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse ... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.
Cindy Crawford
#88. I put some red stuff on my mouth and cheeks so I look healthy - any old red lip pencil and a lip colour from Dr. Hauschka in a crushed berry tone. I never put anything on my eyes, or I look like Joan Crawford.
Jane Birkin
#89. Just because you can wear a micro-miniskirt it doesn't mean you should. You don't need to show your midriff, either, if you're over 40.
Cindy Crawford
#90. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.
Jack Crawford
#91. Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.
Bill Crawford
#92. To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.
Stanley Crawford
#93. The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
Bill Crawford
#94. I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man.
Joan Crawford
#95. You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
Bill Crawford
#96. I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.
Bernie Mac
#97. The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.
Frank Crawford
#98. It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it. I have to exercise to be able to fit the clothes and book the jobs.
Cindy Crawford
#100. The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
Bill Crawford
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