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 howe...
Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded ...
[Seymour is trying to interest a fellow collector in a record he's selling] Paul, the Fussy Guy - Record Collector: It has a enlarged centre hole and a hair-crack. Seymour: But the crack is so tight it's completely inaudible. Paul, the Fussy Guy - Re...
Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And then things happen - these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and h...
There was something in the moonlight tonight. It was stroking the stonework and spires, leaning into cracks between the cobblestones, caressing the stained-glass windows. She felt her heart lift with magic.
[reading from a newspaper] Caroline Cushing: "Frost has hired three crack investigators..." James Reston, Jr.: Can I be Crack #1? Bob Zelnick: Can I be Deep Crack?
A mended lid to a cracked pan.
An old coachman loves the crack of the whip.
When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.
Distance is the journey. Displacement is the result.
It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.
Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportunity to reinforce or deliberately crack the edifice by screwing with meaning, structure, grammar, the fourth wall, etc. / different...
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
My brain is already scrambled enough.”“Cracked,” I said, not thinking. “Yeah.” Moses scowled. “Well, it’s working for you.” I turned and looked at my walls. “Cracks and all. In fact, if your brain wasn’t cracked, none of the brill...
Lead looked to his hand and saw sparkling chunks of glass in the cracks of the road. He saw ants running around the cracks, infinitely small. His blood ran into the cracks, creating rivers for the industrious ants to perplex over. Lead smiled at the ...
He that wants to eat the kernel must crack the nut.
Marriage is like a groundnut, you have to crack it to see what is inside.
If you don't crack the shell, you can't eat the nut.
Happiness is like crystal -- when it shines the most, it soon cracks.
May, and after a rainy spring We walk streets gallant with rhododendrons.
All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.
