Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Listening to Mr. Bettman, they're going to continue to crack down on all the obstruction and stick fouls that's been called all season. The old days of the Hudson Bay Rules, just tackling and grabbing and holding, won't be there. So we'll continue to see the five, six power plays a game.

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

Bernard Cornwell

I still have to crack the French market, though that isn't entirely surprising considering that the Sharpe novels are endless tales of French defeat.

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.

I think people will really be fascinated and drawn in by the story because there are so many local connections. I call it a lost hotel because that one, more than others in town, has disappeared from memory. It just sort of slipped through the cracks of history.

I think everybody's on the same page with the stated objective of cracking down on pedophiles and sexual predators.

It doesn't look good right now. In the back of the home, there are several cracks throughout the walls of the house.

Jay Farrar

I think I just sort of felt like with the original incarnation of Son Volt we'd hit a wall, ... I didn't want to necessarily be the person who had to crack the whip to try to push people in a certain direction that they didn't want to go.

Emily Mortimer

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.

Cody Franson

Last year I was coming in as a sixth or seventh guy. I did not have much confidence and I did not know if I was cracking the lineup consistently.

Paul Molitor

I went 0 for 4, it was a 0-0 game, and I ended the game in the on-deck circle when one of our guys drove in a run to win it. But, hey, I got four cracks at him.

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.

Just as we saw with Wal-Mart, the immediate sale of properties on Lucy Lane, and shortly after that, with the arrivals of Home Depot and Lowe's and Cracker Barrel, we saw that rapidly come along.

Paul Hartley

I think everyone expected us to crack up when we play the Old Firm. This shows the mentality that we have at Hearts.

We noticed on Friday that there are cracks developing along the length of the lanes. They were about an inch wide when we noticed them. They're now about four inches.

Carrie Vaughn

I grinned at him. 'Jealous?' He grinned right back. 'That's a trick question. If I say yes you'll accuse me of being paranoid and unreasonable, and if I say no you'll make some defensive crack about how I don't think you're worth getting jealous over.' This is what I got for hooking up with a lawyer.

Stephen Kinzer

Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.

Over time and with rain, the rock will get in the cracks and make a nice pathway.

Edward Thomas

Out of us all/ That make rhymes,/ Will you choose/ Sometimes -/ As the winds use/ A crack in a wall/ Or a drain,/ Their joy or their pain/ To whistle through -/ Choose me,/ You English words?

Friendly, accommodating and customer-centered as always. Even though I don't normally have champagne with breakfast at the crack of dawn, I felt compelled to rise to the occasion when it was offered.

Shane Carruth

From a completely financial standpoint, digital is starting to crack as far as an independent filmmaker's access to getting your story out there - Amazon, iTunes, all of those. It makes the prospect of doing it yourself - not easy by any means - but possible, maybe for the first time.

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.

Ehud Barak

If a single crack will appear, Arafat will enter into it and crack the whole system,

I don't think you'll see very many bars immediately going out and start cracking big bottles. They've got an inventory of little bottles they've got to get rid of first, and the only way they can get rid of them is to sell them.

I don't understand the plan to crack heads and move people out. We need to have more beds, period.

Neil Warnock

I enjoyed it; there were two good teams out there, ... And we both wanted to win. Forget the boring Premiership; this was a cracking advert for the Championship.

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.

Mary Lambert

I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.

From the human rights activists in Syria, we have a picture that the Syrians have put the heat on anybody going to Iraq. They have arrested brothers, relatives going to Iraq to fight. They have arrested anybody coming back. Syria has been trying to crack down on these networks that are moving people through Syria into Iraq.

Bono

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Aristophanes

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

Bruce Lee

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.