Quotes About Cracks

#1. This watching through cool intent eyes and delicately adjusting one factor or another till a man's fundamental instinct for self-preservation cracks, is savagery in its most pure, most polished and most highly evolved form.

Tana French

#2. I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained.

John Aubrey

#3. I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people.

Thomm Quackenbush

#4. Be drug-free and smoke some crack.

Samuel Goldwyn

#5. I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.

Nick Cannon

#6. You are pure-hearted and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks your heart.

Margo Lanagan

#7. I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.

Meredith Monk

#8. Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.

Isobelle Carmody

#9. He fills my thoughts, my dreams, and my nightmares. The memory of him, and his touch, pound on the door to my soul with such force that cracks are forming in the wood. I do my best to act like no one is home by keeping the door locked and the lights off.

Andrea Randall

#10. I didn't have to look at him to know I'd just lost everything I'd ever wanted because I felt it. I felt the loss seep into bone and tissue. I felt it settle between the cracks in my heart and the empty holes in my soul.

Julie Bale

#11. Her heart was finished. It bore, perhaps, records of life, but it wasn't alive. Too late for decoration. Too late for effects. Further handling could only result in cracks and fractures. People could cut themselves on the edgesof her heart, she was sure of it.

Stephanie Kallos

#12. 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

#13. Celebrate the cracks, because that's how the light comes in.

Groucho Marx

#14. Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

Richard Paul Evans

#15. Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.

Rick DeStefanis

#16. I did not want to see how careless this whole system is for so many, how easy it is to fall through the cracks.

Eve Ensler

#17. I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#18. Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.

Eric Drooker

#19. Some of my most beautiful glass pieces have
cracks running through them and I like them anyway because of the colours.

Cath Crowley

#20. She looked around and saw all of the broken things in her wake, and then she looked inside herself ans saw the spidering cracks from the weight of all the things she had done.

Amy Zhang

#21. It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

Anne Lamott

#22. For a long moment, he lay there, staring at a minuscule crack that had begun to reach from one end of the ceiling to the other. Cracks were always there; no matter how well repaired, there would always be weakness.

S.E. Jakes

#23. Not everybody who marries in the church and has a family the old-fashioned way is unhappy." "No, but some are. And even if it's just hit-and-miss . . . even if anybody can fall through the cracks, it's still not what I thought I was buying into at all. It still all feels like it makes no sense.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#24. Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine,

Rob Ford

#25. Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.

Dan Fogelberg

#26. Regardless of the country it is practised in, most of hospital medicine is painting over the cracks rather than fixing the wall.

Benjamin Daniels

#27. Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.

Tina Fey

#28. We are all prisoners of our birthdays," I said, "Though we try to transcend them. We are creatures of our times, and sometimes our souls peek through the cracks and yearn for the sky. And then we are magnificent creatures.

Jo Graham

#29. Rather than complaining about inconsequential little irritations, I'm asking God to get right to the root of the problem, to eradicate the dry rot and fix the cracks in my foundation. I need Him to show me how to love Him and how to love His people. Even the ones I don't like - even myself.

Craig Groeschel

#30. Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#31. I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.

K.d. Lang

#32. He's heart-stoppingly handsome, and he has this brooding sense about him whenever I see his pictures. As if he rarely cracks a smile, so when he does you know it must be special ...

Lauren Blakely

#33. 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

#34. You are beautiful and magical and perfect, especially because of your flaws. Those cracks are what let the light in, baby.

Dawn Gluskin

#35. He's a very funny and very nice man. When you read the script, you want to stick with it. But when you're with Eddie Murphy you've got to improvise. He's always making jokes and making me crack up when the camera's on.

Raven-Symone

#36. Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

Phillip Adams

#37. The truth of the matter is that we've all got cracks in our spirits, and we have to remember they're only there because we need them ... Otherwise, how could God's grace filter in deep enough to give us the joy and peace we're all searching for in this world. It couldn't, plain and simple.

Delia Parr

#38. Before New York, the cracks were already there, but now they began to split open and gape, and the difference between how a thing or a place or a person appears and the reality becomes alarmingly visible, garish.

Elizabeth Winder

#39. Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.

Hanna Rosin

#40. It is not always the best people who emerge from hiding, from the corners and cracks of that farmedout field, but often those who have proven themselves strongest, not always those who will create new values but rather those whose thick skin and internal resilience have ensured their survival.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#41. Even in societies where words are often strictly controlled, messages diverse never die. Resembling seeds scattered here and there, they find all manner of cracks and crevices to root.

William E. Jefferson

#42. 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

#43. Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.

Ram Dass

#44. Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.

Dan Rather

#45. Thou doth not know the tragedy of a tale between two hearts till the tears of a forgotten love dissolve into the scars of yearning and seep through the cracks of the broken, leaving behind a trail of crimson for all but one to see.

Raneem Kayyali

#46. ...this place, this life, the one we were building together, even with all its cracks and bumps and imperfections, this life was the one I needed, the one I wanted, and that best of all, it was home.

Kimberly Stuart

#47. If you write a novel where war is nothing but hell and no one experiences excitement or cracks a dark joke, then you're not actually admitting the full experience.

Phil Klay

#48. What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it?

Andre Dubus

#49. The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes.

Pawan Mishra

#50. I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.

Miranda July

#51. The defining moment when we finally admit, "I can't do this alone. Its too much for me. Take it."
That's the moment our heart cracks open, our will pours out and Christ stands ready with his arms stretched wide and his smile even wider.
That's the moment a miracle is born.

Toni Sorenson

#52. A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

Natsuo Kirino

#53. The true story ... is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.

Sarah Dessen

#54. High school. You know, people say, 'I'll never do so-and-so again' - then they do it. So what? Sometimes somebody has crack, and you're looking to stay awake.

Jon Stewart

#55. It's the broken that find a way, because the cracks, although deep, let out as much light as the darkness they let in

Tom Kavanagh

#56. Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

Ridley Scott

#57. Been there, done that
Sold crack, got jacked
Got shot, came back
Jumped on Dre's back!

Jayceon Terrell Taylor

#58. Moonlight slipped in through the lace curtains, slicing everything with its sliver cracks. That's how I felt right now - cold and cracked and hollow and empty.

Jennifer Estep

#59. Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.

Garrison Keillor

#60. Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

#61. It's in the darkest moments when the cracks allow the inner light to come out.

Edward James Olmos

#62. Hmm, What did I love? I think all the scents. Mama's lilac trees, and the wild iris in the fields, and rain on the breeze on a hot day. Apple and pear blossoms. The hay just cut. The mix of odors in the barn when the sunlight was shafting through the cracks in the boards, heating everything up.

Jane Smiley

#63. Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in the power of leaders and peoples to shape the directions of change.

Robert Zoellick

#64. Similarly, forcing your beliefs onto someone else damages your relationship. The damage may not be easy to spot at first, like tiny cracks in a wooden wheel, but it's just a matter of time before the wheel splits apart.

Derek Lin

#65. 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

#66. I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.

Ann Richards

#67. A Healing Dream can never be completely "interpreted," or fully understood. Healing Dreams want us to stop making sense; not just to crack the case, but to enter the mystery.

Marc Ian Barasch

#68. Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.

Mary Gaitskill

#69. I can't seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist.

Kiersten White

#70. One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

Charles Dickens

#71. Life is like a clam," Birds Mottle's father once told her. "Years filtering shit then some bastard cracks you open and scrapes you into its damned mouth.

Steven Erikson

#72. My son is such a lover, such a caretaker and so funny. He's seven, and he genuinely cracks me up. And my daughter is a fearless powerhouse. They fill me with wonder and admiration.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#73. She's been there for me in a lot of ways, and she really is just the most dependable and loyal and funny as all get out. I mean, she just cracks me up. Constantly.

Jennifer Aniston

#74. I can see the cracks in society, in people, in this world and I'd rather die before slipping into one of them.

Shayne Colaco

#75. Zain you have to stay down. We can't have anyone driving by seeing you." Zain flops down immediately and stares between the cracks, in between the two front seats. "Suki's bleeding

Karmel Divine

#76. 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

#77. You don't have to be afraid of me. Eugene likes you. Doc likes you. That means I like you. We're all family now. All the funny little people who live in the cracks of the world.

Richard Kadrey

#78. Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

Frank Zappa

#79. Age in itself gives substance - what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer's mind.

Jane Hirshfield

#80. I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

Noomi Rapace

#81. God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks.

Anonymous

#82. Nice is akin to not walking under ladders or stepping on cracks. It's a superstitious hedging of bets. A part of you thinks your good behavior will ward off evil. Well, apparently that's not true.

Deb Caletti

#83. Beauty can help fill the cracks in people's hearts and comfort their souls." There

Lesley Kagen

#84. Would the realization of Sukhvinder's desperation lead, at last, to some crack in her mother's implacable disapproval, her disappointment, her endless stone-faced criticism?

J.K. Rowling

#85. Whatever your woman is into, you better be into. Whatever your man is into, you better be N2. Your partner into church, you better be into church. Your man or woman a crack head, you better be a crack head ... Otherwise it just won't work.

Chris Rock

#86. Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer - the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That's all you need.

Anne Lamott

#87. I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.

Allan McNish

#88. You get in a smart crack, and everyone laughs and kikis because you've found a flaw and exaggerated it, then you've got a good read going.

Dorian Corey

#89. Maybe someday you'll realize that we are both solid despite the cracks.

Amy Reed

#90. You get in its way, you get paved over. If you can find a way to live in the cracks, you can thrive anywhere. There were always cracks.

James S.A. Corey

#91. My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead intersectional lives and too often fall in between the cracks of these narrow mission statements.

Janet Mock

#92. There is cracks, cracks, in everything, that's how the light gets in.' I had cracks but not the hope.

Anne Lamott

#93. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

Ayn Rand

#94. Twitter is crack for media addicts,

George Packer

#95. The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.

Kathy Griffin

#96. Every time he was with someone he didn't want to be with or someone who treated him in a brutal way, Liam would lose himself in wall cracks and ceiling stains too.

Kol Anderson

#97. For the first time perhaps ever, I am not denying the truth of all of my cracks. I am living them.

Lisa Renee Jones

#98. What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

Brion Gysin

#99. 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

#100. The secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe; you must only show the first two cracks.

Manolo Blahnik