Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We're not seeing tanks floating down the rivers. We're not seeing tanks cracked open.

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.

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.

Lindsay Whalen

Obviously it won't be healed before the end of the finals, but it's one of those situations where the swelling, if it can go down, and it's not in the worst possible spot ... Obviously it cracked in the first half (Saturday) and I played the second half, so it wasn't like I was incapable to run, ... Obviously there's swelling and there's some stiffness in there, so right now running I wouldn't be able to do. But you never know over the next few days how things work. We'll just wait and see what happens.

JR is in great spirits it's just something that we're just going to have to let heal. It happened where he just planted the wrong way and it just cracked on him.

Shaun Alexander

He looked like he got in a fight with me. I sat around and cracked every joke I could that I had, to make him laugh ... It was tough, but he's going to be good. He's strong. I was more emotional than he was. He's going to be fine.

Dave Madden

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

Kate Winslet

We all get cracked nipples, mastitis and frantically do pelvic floor exercises' - on being just like any other Mum

I think the school's test scores that I've seen in the papers recently show that this new math thing really isn't what it was cracked up to be. It should be revisited.

Rick Majerus

That ACC is everything it is pretty much cracked up to be, in terms of talent, coaching, venues that you play in, fan enthusiasm and degree of difficulty in terms of winning on the road. And I would say the same thing with the Big Ten.

Emily Mortimer

I think that you can get more passionate about somebody the longer you're with them and the more you know them and the more you go through together. Being married is definitely better than it's cracked up to be I think.

Chris Simon

We finally cracked it. It's an honor to reach that level of musicianship.

The legacy of this week will be of a market that's cracked even before it gets the weight of supply and anticipated strong January data.

Stuart Rose

So far, so good, but we ain't cracked it.

Ann has cracked some nice shots this year. She has been spending time on her own, working.

There's stuff all over the floor, a lot of cracked plaster. I was relieved it was nothing really costly.

They were from the U.S. military from Fort Wayne and they had come to talk to me and my husband. I more or less cracked outside.

It was a long fracture, and I also cracked the knuckle.

Hank Azaria

The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

...then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open

The object was lodged in the window and cracked it.

Barbara Boxer

I'm very fearful, very fearful that a lot of people who are going to depend on this trust fund are going to find out it's not what it's cracked up to be.

Steve Hofstetter

I don't think I ever cracked up as much in my life as I did during my stepfather's funeral service and burial. All we could do to prevent crying was to laugh throughout it. Laughter is very powerful. It's something that can't be underestimated.

Ronny Turiaf

It was hell, the toughest thing in my life. My rib was cracked open, I could not play basketball; I could not do anything by myself for months.

Ovid

Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

Chris Quinn

Got cracked in the jaw a little bit. That's the price you pay.

There's always a disclaimer that says these have not been proven to be true. And, you can always have a different result than what we're advertising. That should be a real warning flag for people to realize that maybe everything here is not all it's cracked up to be.

I'm just going to have to have her keep them cracked if she plays like this.