1.
Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.
Louis Kahn
Even a chamber that must be shrouded in darkness requires at least a glimmer of illumination to comprehend its dimness.
2.
With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.
Fannie Lou Hamer
'For the select few, by the select few; I chuckle when I hear it; I say, for the elite, by the elite, as that is what truly transpires.'
3.
If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
If we don't take a comprehensive approach, some of us, the most susceptible, will be left behind.
4.
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks
Erving Goffman
5.
Life is a gamble, we scramble for money,
I might crack a smile, but ain't a damn thing funny.
Prodigy
6.
Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.
Patricia Hill Collins
7.
No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks. Someone will come to sing into these empty spaces.
Sarah Kay
8.
Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.
Wale
9.
I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
Ann Richards
11.
She left the web,
she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look'd down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
12.
It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.
Rich Mullins
13.
Let's save some time here. I grow weary of your clumsy bluffs. In the case of an abduction, the LEP will send a crack Retrieval team to get back what has been lost.. You have done so. Excuse me while I titter. Crack team? Honestly. A Cub-Scout patrol armed with water pistols could have defeated them.
Eoin Colfer
14.
Oh, and Cammie," At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me Gallagher Girl. The last thing I expected was to feel his arms sliding arounds me, to sense the whole world turning upside down as Zach dipped me in the middle of the foyer and pressed his lips to mine. Then he smiled that smile I'd come to know. "I always finish what I start.
Ally Carter
15.
I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know?
Louis C. K.
16.
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
Ted Dexter
17.
I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.
Dan Rather
18.
It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.
Gene Simmons
19.
Wake up: all of that 'crack in the street' talk?
It's made up, like 'Jack and the Beanstalk.'
Sean Price
20.
Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.
Pope Paul VI
21.
Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.
Adam Sandler
22.
It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.
Robert Cormier
23.
Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.
John D. Rockefeller
24.
I don't look like I've been on a week long crack binge with Amy Winehouse.
Triple H
25.
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Henry A. Wallace
26.
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.
Daniel Hannan
27.
All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
Mark Nepo
28.
If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
Bjork
29.
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Bruce Lee
30.
Just remember when you think you're free, the crack in your heart is me.
Marilyn Manson
31.
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
E. B. White
32.
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
Brandon Sanderson
34.
See every crack, every detail. I learned to really see and not just look at my business.
Jon Taffer
35.
I will smoke crack before I die. I want to see what all the hubbub is about.
Eric Andre
36.
In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.
Ethan Hawke
37.
Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.
Hillary Clinton
38.
I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.
Rob Ford
39.
We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.
Dilma Rousseff
40.
Once you crack the script, everything else follows.
Ridley Scott
41.
It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.
Kristin Kreuk
42.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren
Ayn Rand
43.
He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.
Jim Butcher
44.
There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.
Alex Turner
45.
What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!
Brion Gysin
46.
The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you.
Esther Hicks
47.
It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.
Vincent Price
48.
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.
Osip Mandelstam
49.
I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.
Dick Gregory
50.
As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.
Arthur Godfrey