Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Wong

On an earthen dam, if you don't do maintenance and you have vegetation growth, tree roots penetrate into the soil and then it weakens the soil or creates cracks or gaps where water can seep in.

Many local officials have punted, saying this is a federal issue and we can't do anything about it. Well, there are some things you can do, ... Crack down on those contractors, crack down on illegal housing and create a better relationship with immigration officials.

She went into the ditch to keep from hitting people, ... She's got a cracked vertebrae, but she's going to be fine. She's just a little skinned up.

like crack cocaine to the state of West Virginia right now.

Jack Straw

Let no one be in any doubt that this is a profoundly evil trade whose perpetrators have no regard for human life, ... We have been determined to crack down on this trade.

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.

I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God’s ass as he completely turned his back on me.

Victoria Jackson

They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.

Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.

Rob Brown

When we're on our 13th or 14th hour, we're dragging, but he's always ready. He's always cracking jokes. He wants to make sure everyone has a good time.

Elmore Leonard

Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don't do that anymore.

Alice Oswald

Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.

Ken Doherty

Those were two cracking shots but I should've won the frame earlier. I'm really disappointed. That was an opportunity lost.

Nikki Sixx

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

Pete Wentz

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

Tom Brokaw

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

Debbie Ford

Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.

Jeff Garcia

Yeah, I'd like to be in school. Just friends. Staying at home isn't all what it's cracked up to be. It's pretty boring.

We had some really good cracks in the box.

Imelda May

I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.

Dwayne Johnson

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.

We offer fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, whole-grain crackers and lots of healthy snacks.

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

Dave Madden

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

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.

Arjun Atwal

Tiger was cracking jokes and relating some locker room stories. He also imitated a few players.

Boris Johnson

Tremendous, little short of superb. On cracking form.

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.

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.

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