Cracked Quotations

Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.

I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.

When Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio cracked down on illegal immigration without getting permission from Obama, they threatened to revoke his 287(g) status. When Sheriff Joe refused to balk, they filed suit against him with a frivolous civil rights claim.

My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.

I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.

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

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.

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

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

She went into the ditch to keep from hitting people, ... She's got a cracked vertebrae, but she's going to be fine. She's just a little skinned up.

Since the music industry cracked and fell apart, gasping for the cash flow it had come to expect, much re-thinking has been the order of the day. It is a fine time to be a musician. Like walking through Sodom and Gomorrah while it is still smoking, on your way to the next gig.

She hit the ground so hard, she cracked the sidewalk and moved the concrete about four inches,

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

More than five million seniors have already saved money on their prescription drugs, and almost 33 million have benefited from free preventive services. The president cracked down hard on Medicare and health care fraud, recovering a record-breaking $10.7 billion over the last three years, protecting our seniors. That's what change looks like.

Obviously it won't be healed before the end of the finals, but it's one of those situations where the swelling, if it can go down, and it's not in the worst possible spot ... Obviously it cracked in the first half (Saturday) and I played the second half, so it wasn't like I was incapable to run, ... Obviously there's swelling and there's some stiffness in there, so right now running I wouldn't be able to do. But you never know over the next few days how things work. We'll just wait and see what happens.

Richie said he started to idle, and then Richie panicked and cracked him. You really don't want to hit him any more than you have to. He got him running again, but I think it caught him off guard.

I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.

I had Vance for three years in the Minor Leagues, and I thought he was going to be an All-Star catcher one day. But he got in a collision at home plate and cracked a bone in his wrist -- so he was done for the year,

From cracked sidewalks to public housing, to federal transportation dollars for Hialeah, he literally has transformed that city and often against great adversity, many times without the recognition he deserves.

I don't think I've cracked a smile that wide in a couple of weeks. It's been a hard two weeks. Then to be in that situation, it was like a fairy tale.

If we would have hit two free throws a couple of times, we would have cracked it open, but we didn't. We still did some good things. I thought we executed great in the first half.

He got cracked pretty hard the other night in the Chicago game.

He looked like he got in a fight with me. I sat around and cracked every joke I could that I had, to make him laugh ... It was tough, but he's going to be good. He's strong. I was more emotional than he was. He's going to be fine.

He may have a cracked bone in his foot. We don't know how long he will be out. He may be back next week or he may be out the rest of the year. We are hoping it's just one more week.

He should be able to start training next week all going well which is good news as initially we thought it could have been a cracked rib because he was passing blood and was in a lot of pain. That's why the hospital kept him in overnight, but all going well he will now come into contention for the Celtic match.

. . . human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.

Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity

Judge Nichols denied the motion, finding that Redding did, based on the totality of the circumstance, have reasonable suspicion to detain the car and driver, based on the cracked windshield. This was further supported by the evidence presented.

JR is in great spirits it's just something that we're just going to have to let heal. It happened where he just planted the wrong way and it just cracked on him.

It became evident on the pace lap that something was wrong with the exhaust, ... It had cracked and the muffler started to come off. We pitted early, which put me way back. Needless to say, exhaust fumes were getting to me, as well, so it was a pretty demanding race physically. Then, the fuel pump died with 15 laps to go, so we nursed it around and made it to the end. Our season went well. The GT-1 program gave me a chance to shine within the Trans-Am Series and to entice future sponsorship for next year. The heightened exposure helped and our plan worked.

I was aiming high, but my stick cracked and I went short side.

I thought she was referring to a box of paper photographs. I cracked open this box, and there were just stacks and stacks of glass plate negatives.

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.

I think the school's test scores that I've seen in the papers recently show that this new math thing really isn't what it was cracked up to be. It should be revisited.

That ACC is everything it is pretty much cracked up to be, in terms of talent, coaching, venues that you play in, fan enthusiasm and degree of difficulty in terms of winning on the road. And I would say the same thing with the Big Ten.

I was hoping to stall the ball because I thought they would make another run. We never cracked under the pressure.

I think she cracked her bridge up there. We hope to have her back for next week. She was at practice yesterday, and we let her shoot a little bit. She got hit a couple of games ago in the mouth. She's a big part of our team. She's our leading scorer right now, and we've got to have her back.

We haven't yet cracked how to integrate what's on the desktop with what's in the various content management systems.

We were mad because they cracked a couple runs and got right down in there,

We finally cracked it. It's an honor to reach that level of musicianship.

You dig yourself a hole and then you have to dig yourself out. We cracked back. We were down by 12, we were down by 13, we were chipping away. A good team makes you do something different with the ball, and they did.

We're not seeing tanks floating down the rivers. We're not seeing tanks cracked open.

Where else are you going to go if you have a cracked windshield, a busted pipe, or need a specialty piece of children's furniture?

Yeah, I'd like to be in school. Just friends. Staying at home isn't all what it's cracked up to be. It's pretty boring.

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.

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

We're two totally different people from two totally different parts of the earth. I think people are wanting it to be more than what it really was. It wasn't like we hated each other. We spoke every day, said what's up, had conversations, cracked jokes, just like any other teammate in here. Basketball-wise, came in, did what we had to do to get a win. Sometimes we didn't get it. We're both competitive.

While price remains a purchase driver, the results of this study show that the audio buyer still places sound quality at the top of their list. The good news for retailers is that many consumers are leaving the door of opportunity cracked open through their willingness to interact with a sales person and to receive a demonstration of better audio equipment.

What should be, is.' As my grandmother explained it to our family the winter she lost three fingertips to frostbite when the furnace in her little house broke and she fell and cracked a hip while trying to light it, 'Accepting life's imperfections is not the secret. The secret, dears, is to understand life has none. How could it? We've got nothing to compare it to. We can dream something up, of course- some pretty maybe life where fingers are very hard and indestructible- but that's pure mischief, darlings. Fingers freeze. It's one of the things they like to do sometimes.

First game out of the box, man, and let me tell you, I was running scared. I got my helmet cracked the first time I touched that thing (the ball). Man, it got beat up a little bit. That gives you inspiration to go out there and not make too many mistakes.

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

The good news is that Microsoft has cracked the nut. The bad news is, the more successful they are with making the story public, the more they show that the SAP product line is a reasonable option as well.

The government has cracked down so much that today most of the major activists are already in jail. That means good people who once stayed inside and system and pushed the rules and who could have been tapped to modernize China, have been forced to step outside the system.

The government has cracked down on us to foil our planned protest. Police have so far arrested up to 1,000 opposition members who have been mobilizing supporters to come to join the rally in Dhaka.

We all get cracked nipples, mastitis and frantically do pelvic floor exercises' - on being just like any other Mum

Throwing worn-out wallpaper on a cracked foundation just doesn't work. The Bush administration proposal amounts to nothing more than that. Don't solve the problem, just end up with more rhetoric. We need a fundamental change in the way we look at Cuba.

You go to psychiatrist when your slightly cracked and keep going until you're completely broke.

This thing of traveling in Illinois, and being eaten up by bed bugs, and mosquitoes (fleas you know don't trouble me much) is not what it's cracked up to be.

Cracked Rear View' was a phenomenon. You look at the records you consider creative of the '90s and 'Cracked Rear View' sold more than all of them. That's just one of those things. That's just something else. It won't happen again. Now we just want to make the records, have our fan base and go on tour whenever we feel like playing.

Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but if once cracked can never be repaired

There's stuff all over the floor, a lot of cracked plaster. I was relieved it was nothing really costly.

There's something very charming and warm about Blondie and Dagwood, and something very honest about the strip. It's as if (Young) is holding up a slightly cracked mirror to society.

Is Hillary Clinton as brilliant a politician as she's cracked up to be? Here's a bit of evidence for the negative: 'Clinton Says Lawyers Must Make Their Voices Heard in Washington' reads the headline of an Associated Press dispatch about a speech New York's junior senator gave at the American Bar Association convention in Chicago. Lawyers need to speak up more: Now there's a message sure to strike a chord with the public.

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.

It was a long fracture, and I also cracked the knuckle.

Officials in the United States have cracked down considerably on spammers by giving out harsh sentences to those convicted -- that's good news for organizations and consumers. Unfortunately, email users around the world are still being bombarded by unsolicited messages.

Actually, I started my ring career as a terrific hitter; then my hands cracked up and I had to resort to boxing and tricks to win.

Ann has cracked some nice shots this year. She has been spending time on her own, working.

At worst it's a wash-out, ... I don't think the fears or the benefits of the dollar's fall are really quite as much as they're cracked up to be.

They were from the U.S. military from Fort Wayne and they had come to talk to me and my husband. I more or less cracked outside.

They have broken a life, they have not cracked our values and our desire for the peace.

There's always a disclaimer that says these have not been proven to be true. And, you can always have a different result than what we're advertising. That should be a real warning flag for people to realize that maybe everything here is not all it's cracked up to be.

It was cracked a little bit ... I just finished it. It's hard when you're hitting the ball well and the hits don't come.

It looks like it was cracked in a couple places. It's a big loss if we lose him. Hopefully we can get him back next week. We'll need him.

It shows how much he cares, how much pride and courage he has. A lot of guys would say, 'I have a cracked rib,' and pack it in. He keeps going out there.

...then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open

The object was lodged in the window and cracked it.

Everybody's got the ultimate confidence in Rick and knows he's going to do his job. He's out there having fun. When we were down 21 points, he came into the huddle and said a joke. I almost cracked up laughing a little bit.

I've had to bring in 13 new guys with what all these guys have done here before. We've had some guys play here who've cracked the top 50-75 in the world rankings.

They cracked down so much the first month that it was hard to know what you could get away with. Now you can battle for the puck.

They broke this. They put a big green mark from the recycling truck here, knocked all this out. Knocked this light loose. This was cracked and broken.

It was hell, the toughest thing in my life. My rib was cracked open, I could not play basketball; I could not do anything by myself for months.

So far, so good, but we ain't cracked it.

The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

I'm not sure, and I've done quite a few of his games. How much is he bluffing? How much is real? I know over the years, a couple of teams have cracked his code. They knew exactly what he was doing. But that's only good for one game. He changes his stuff a lot.

I'm not leaving coaching. The grind of high school coaching is enormous. Coaching state championship teams is not all that it's cracked up to be sometimes. I never really got used to making decisions that not everybody was going to be happy with.

I'm dealing with it the best way I can. But at the same time, I still find myself thinking it's nerve-wracking and it ain't all it's cracked up to be. But I guess the first week is probably the hardest week, just like any other job. Then it gets better.

I'm just going to have to have her keep them cracked if she plays like this.

I'm very fearful, very fearful that a lot of people who are going to depend on this trust fund are going to find out it's not what it's cracked up to be.

I noticed the sliding glass door wouldn't open. The concrete under the door had cracked and buckled upward and jammed the door into its frame.

His father called me around 10:30 to say Kendrick is gone. He must have opened the door and walked out the door. His daddy went looking for him all over and he can't find him. Nobody can find him. He must have been looking for his daddy because his daddy went upstairs to answer the phone, check the clothes or something. His daddy came back down and the door was cracked open.

I don't think I ever cracked up as much in my life as I did during my stepfather's funeral service and burial. All we could do to prevent crying was to laugh throughout it. Laughter is very powerful. It's something that can't be underestimated.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one.