Famous Quotes & Sayings

The police are back to their old habits of cracking down on the Brotherhood.

Cilla Black

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.

Margot Kidder

Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.

E. P. Thompson

We're waiting for their response so we can get cracking before Easter.

We're very skeptical about that survey. There's no way people who are fond of drinking would speak positively about measures we have taken to crack down on drunk driving.

Usually, we'll look over at each other and crack a smile, but that's about it.

Patricia Highsmith

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.

While the economic data have been all over the place in recent weeks, there are no obvious signs that the economy is cracking in the face of record energy prices. Indeed, the export and production data have been surprisingly perky.

We found a way to crack them with that big run before half. That gave us a good lift and we had great energy to come out in the second half. Pete has a real good feel for the game. He has a knack of where to be.

Ben Mendelsohn

As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline' set and found my name on a chair next to Sissy Spacek's was the happiest of my working life.

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.

When it's tough like that you've got to crack down on defense. We didn't and they got some easy shots.

We hope this proposal will become part of a larger effort to crack down on fraud in our unemployment insurance system.

We're a good skating team, but we need to identify some definitive goal scorers. In our last game (vs. C-C), we had 33 shots on net but only scored one goal. We need to do a better job of cracking the cage.

Chris Simon

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

Mark Williams

We know it will be hard. But we'll have a hard crack at it.

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

Mike Young

Political honeymoons have a way of ending with a vengeance. This poll reflects that. You don't expect Republicans to be skeptical of one of their own. They like his persona, but the poll shows cracks in the armor.

One of the most extraordinary things about technology stocks is that they're the first ones to crack under any pressure in the marketplace. Investors wax from enthusiasm to extreme distress very quickly with that group more than any other.

Damien Chazelle

I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

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

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.

If it's done right, whoever cracks the digital-music-on-the-cell-phone conundrum will do well,

He's a character. In practice he's cracking jokes all the time to get us going. When we're going in practice, if somebody fouls him he'll exaggerate it and make all kinds of noise. It's just simple stuff like that that makes us laugh. He's a big, great guy.

Lynn Coady

Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.

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.

He might be a short guy, but short guys can get through small cracks and make plays.

He was able to crack the nut to get the B-17 here,

He woke up this morning and said he was sick. I had him sleep until noon. He was throwing up with a fever. We gave him crackers and water all day.

He hasn't made a final decision, but I think he's leaning towards having another crack at it.

Dom Starsia

He has a strong left hand and the potential to crack one of the top units. Kevin is big and strong, a willing student and a quick study.

He drove up and was searched, and he had some crack on him.