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Quotes About Crack

When I shed my skin for you, I left intact my animal heart the desire to crack bones between delicate teeth.
~ Jeannine Hall Gailey
Nick sat beside Simon, who was at his computer. Marcus stood at attention beside the food. Hale had his feet on the table, reading the morning paper. And someone had given the Bagshaws a gun. 'Pull!' Hamish yelled, and Angus pulled a cord and sent a skeet flying across the deep blue water. A split second later, a loud crack was reverberating across the deck. Kat jumped. Hale sighed. The shot went far wide, and Marcus never moved a muscle.
~ Ally Carter
In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.
~ Tim Crouch
With writing, obviously you can really take the time to crack what you're going to say and build to a big point.
~ Steve Kornacki
The [bowling] ball flew out jerkily, sailed about four feet, hit the lane with a loud crack , and then promptly entered the gutter. Roman walked up beside me, and we silently watched the ball complete its journey. 'Are you always that rough with balls?' he asked finally. 'Most men don't complain.
~ Richelle Mead
It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.
~ Robert Cormier
There was a sharp crack of splintering paneling, and Newt swore colorfully in Latin.
~ Kim Harrison
You tell me the dead are coming through a crack in my barn, but I shouldn't worry?
~ Kathy Bryson, Restless Spirits
The Chief always insisted it would take acts such as this to fill the world's great hollows. Though nothing else could do it, he said, murder would fill those gaping caves in much the same way that a crack along its face will fill a mirror. Then they would achieve real power over existence.
~ Yukio Mishima
One of the most common uses of early stone tools was to crack open bones in order to get to the marrow.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The Humpty Dumpty statue on top of the clock topples to the ground and cracks.
~ Jen Calonita
I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.
~ Mark Ruffalo
I didn't sit around thinking, 'I'd love to play Luke Cage,' but when the character was presented, I did my research, and I was just like, 'This is a real gift. He's a great character, and I'm happy to have a chance to take a crack at him.'
~ Mike Colter
They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
~ Victoria Jackson
I came away with the impression that this guy was either the most forward-thinking finance expert on the planet, or a crack smoker who simply placed his hands on the keyboard, attached electric stimuli to his genitalia, flipped the switch, and started typing.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Crack, crack—crack, crack—crack, crack—so this is Paris! quoth I (continuing in the same mood)—and this is Paris!—humph!—Paris! cried I, repeating the name the third time— The first, the finest, the most brilliant— —The streets however are nasty; But it looks, I suppose, better than it smells—crack, crack—crack, crack—
~ Laurence Sterne
The other night he took me to dinner. We were having a wonderful time when he remarked, You can certainly tell the wives from the sweethearts. I stopped licking the stream of butter dripping down my elbow and replied, What kind of crack is that?
~ Erma Bombeck
If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
~ Wendell Phillips
It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.
~ Robert Cormier
There was an electric bell push screwed to the counter. It had a thin wire that ran away to a nearby crack, and a handwritten sign that said If Unattended Ring For Service. The message was carefully lettered and protected by many layers of clear tape, applied in strips of generous length, some of which were curled at the corners, and dirty, as if picked at by bored or anxious fingers.
~ Lee Child
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
~ Albert Einstein
Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.
~ Donna Tartt