Crack Quotes

He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. (Plautus)
There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in. View quote
Leonard Cohen
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. View quote
Franz Kafka
Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which, when the lime and straw are mixed with such sand, will cause it to crack as it dries on account of the great strength of the mixture. But river sand, though useless in "signinum" on account of its thinness, becomes perfectly solid in stucco when thoroughly worked by means of polishing instruments. View quote
Vitruvius
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic. View quote
George Carlin
Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. View quote
Joseph Addison
Do you know what the good side of crack is If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for 1.50. You can furnish your whole house for 10.95. View quote
Chris Rock
With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, 'cause that's what really happens. View quote
Fannie Lou Hamer
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. (Joseph Hall)
Slot machines are like crack for old people. View quote
Keenen Ivory Wayans
In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world. View quote
Valerie Solanas
Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it. View quote
Adam Sandler
the streams buck like rams in a tent whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed shadows of the shepherds. black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. wings brush against flowers. fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar. View quote
Jean Arp
I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it. View quote
Kid Rock
Yes I have smoked crack cocaine. But, no, do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Um, probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago. View quote
Rob Ford
The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking. View quote
Guy Ritchie
I'm so glad Courtney Love is here; I left my crack in my other purse. View quote
Sarah Silverman
With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open-a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road-and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed. (Aravind Adiga)
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. View quote
George Chapman
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom - he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold. View quote
E. B. White
In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living. View quote
E. B. White
The painter paints his brushes black Through the canvas runs a crack Portrait of the pain never answers back. View quote
Phil Ochs