Some things are not all their cracked up to be.'

“We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with lacquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete…

— Mackenzi Lee

Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll…

— Michael J. Jackson

“on the last day of love my heart cracked inside my body”

— Rupi Kaur

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

— Hallie Ephron

“Your life is nothing, just a little makeshift that you play with for a while, a machine that you put to use. And if…

— Howard Fast

Maybe you've attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you've never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for effectiveness as…

— Howard G. Hendricks

Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into show business…

— Dave Madden

My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood -…

— Carol Burnett

Working with Preme is always a dream come true. It's never like "I'm here and I'm comfortable." It's always like that very first time.…

— Torae

“The book is open, spine cracked, abused in a way no one with respect for paper should ever do.”

— Erika Swyler

“How many girls have you been with since her, Drew?”      Hell. So this was it. She wanted him to lay it all out…

— Adriana Law

To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly…

— Joan Didion

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be…

— Demosthenes

Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect…

— Helen Garner

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

— Anne Lamott