I forever felt that I’ve fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock ‘n’ roll and too old to be brand-new. It’s hard.
I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long’s Peak, climbing with Tom Frost, and slept at the icy feet of the Dru, listening to the lightning crack above me and the thunder roll down. I only did it to write about it. I would never go up on the Grotto Wall for fun.
I think people make mistakes when they’re on Twitter when they’re trying to crack jokes, none of it’s funny, and it tends to happen to people who are trying to be funny.
I think America is a hard nut to crack. But once you get a toehold, it’s a great place for an entrepreneur because people are so enthusiastic, and you have the most enthusiastic audiences in world.
When hackers have access to powerful computers that use brute force hacking, they can crack almost any password; even one user with insecure access being successfully hacked can result in a major breach.
I’ve never seen Kendrick Lamar crack a joke, and I’ve met him, but I’m sure he’s hilarious, too, just because he’s so good at rapping. J. Cole is a funny guy as well. Drake is funny. But who’s the funniest guy I’ve met who is a rapper? I would say 50 Cent.
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.
I knew that the most important thing a man has is in his head, and from a young age, I often studied the head structure of each person, hoping to crack his codes. I considered a high forehead a gift from God.
Every level of government has a role to play in combating the rise of MS-13 and other gangs, and we must crack down on the aspects of our nation’s broken immigration system and other policies that have allowed MS-13 and other gangs to take hold in our communities and stay there.
We must not dive into tackles but force the opponent to run so that maybe they will crack late in the game.
I’m really starting to get bored with myself, doing the same workouts. ‘Oh here we go again.’ I need someone to crack the whip. I need someone to kick my butt because sometimes I can end up taking it pretty easy on myself.
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
I’m a technophobe. I can’t crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.
Back when I was racing go-karts, I would be a complete jokester. I’d crack up with the guys around me, I just was horsing around with everyone. But as soon as we got our go-karts to the grid and I put on my helmet, my daddy always used tell me, ‘You turn into a completely different person.’
The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn’t like us for some reason; I don’t even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he’ll eventually crack, but maybe not. We’re just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, ‘Come on, dude!’
I would honestly be elated if I could wave a magic wand and eradicate my back catalog and then have a fresh crack at some of those ideas.
I’m up at the crack of dawn. If I’m filming, then I’ll wake at 5 A.M. so that I can get on set and made up before the cameras start rolling.
The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance – a ‘good’ bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies’ man.
You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,’ you’re going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don’t matter. Sue me – I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
I want to crack jokes about people. That is my right.
Everything ultimately becomes the CEO’s problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.
I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy’s underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It’s difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I’d done it more. I can’t complain. I’ve had a fair crack of the whip.
You get somebody to crack a smile, that’s a beautiful thing.
I want to make movies and pieces of television and pieces of art that crack everyone’s assumptions.
I need to crack the Mumbai traffic code – if I leave early, under the assumption that there will be traffic, I get completely clear roads and reach an hour before my meeting, and then because I can’t find parking I end up having to walk anyway.
I remember as a little kid, I would always feel comfortable if the light in the crack of my parents’ door was on at night. When it went off, that meant they were asleep. Then that terror and the fear of being by myself started to creep in.
Haven’t we all been taken aback when an illness suddenly causes the voice to crack and sometimes dry up completely?
Two things I do for maintenance: I get a manicure once a month, and I see my therapist about every six weeks. I am happy to report that, at this point, my nails crack more often than I do.
I’ve committed myself to perfecting the art of the straight man. I try really hard not to crack up.
Trump lies when confronted with the truth, since any crack in his narcissism might spread like an Ebola of the soul, and he would deflate like one of Macy’s balloons on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
I can’t crack jokes because I don’t have any.
Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward.
If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I’d love to talk to them.
The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that I’d grown over the years before having a child. Perhaps that might be quite interesting in terms of acting.
The ‘EU in a Nutshell’ is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It’s a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.
I’m not good at taking pictures. I can’t give a good face. I crack up.
I imagined there would be a way to crack the diffraction barrier. But of course I didn’t know exactly how it would work, but I had a gut feeling that there must be something, and so I tried to think about it, to be creative.
I’m not going to crack America.
Through U.K. aid, we will help developing countries to crack down on money laundering and gather more tax – which will reduce their need for our help in the long term.
That’s why I really don’t play cards or gamble. Because I’d crack.
I think, ya know, he’s called out a few WWE Superstars; I wouldn’t mind taking a crack at Conor McGregor, and he’s, like, 165 pounds, 185 pounds soaking wet. So, I would like to slam him on his head a few times.
I’d like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I’m skillful enough at it all, we’ll see.
If getting young people computer-literate through putting school systems online is a no-brainer, at least in retrospect, getting older people and those in rural areas online can be a tougher nut to crack.
I was, like, this tiny little kid that was goofy and would always crack jokes or sit in the back of class and not listen to anything that the teacher was saying.
Even in your darkest moments, you’ll think of something that’ll crack you up.
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.
Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There’s no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely.
My first time around in WWE, there wasn’t the WWE Network. We weren’t as big. It was much harder to crack through and get to the audience.
I’m not the best fly fisherman, but I can fly-fish, because I crack a whip. I learned to crack a whip as a boy… I have skills, mad skills.
When I’m dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on.
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
My process is kind of intuitive – I think about how a character will speak according to their station and personality, occasionally making notes with guidelines for their mannerisms, and then I just sort of crack on and write it.
So, no, I’m not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I’ll make films there if they’re good scripts.
You only learn if you’re given a crack at things.
If you can pay enough people to buy your .99 ebook and review it positively, and crack one of Amazon’s bestseller lists, readers are going to check it out. Especially at a low price point like .99. Customers are suckers for the fallacy that the cream rises to the top.
