Cracking Quotations

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

I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.

Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of cracking down on countries who export the materials to create meth into the United States.

Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

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.

I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice.

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

Make a conscious effort to loosen your hands and let your arms feel soft when you're at address. Take the club back a bit shorter, and feel as if you're cracking a whip on the way down - not tensing up to smash something hard.

Like Honeycrisp, SweeTango has much larger cells than other apples, and when you bite into it, the cells shatter rather than cleaving along the cell walls, as is the case with most popular apples. The bursting of the cells fills your mouth with juice. Chunks of SweeTango snap off in your mouth with a loud cracking sound.

Now, Spitzer was an anti-crime crusader cracking down on prostitution and Wall Street corruption. So some people were looking to take him down.

If they are able to maintain margins at anywhere near a historical level, they are going to shoot the lights out with a cracking result.

There are true risks when ... enough peanut protein is really being disturbed. So if people are cracking open peanuts, especially in a confined space, a waiting area of a restaurant, you could have a very severe reaction because there's enough peanut airborne there.

When the sheriff came, that's when you really started noticing more of a difference. Ever since they started cracking down on everything, things got better.

I enjoyed it; there were two good teams out there, ... And we both wanted to win. Forget the boring Premiership; this was a cracking advert for the Championship.

I don't think you'll see very many bars immediately going out and start cracking big bottles. They've got an inventory of little bottles they've got to get rid of first, and the only way they can get rid of them is to sell them.

But there are charities there, there are individuals there from which money does flow to organizations and groups that we have a lot of concern about, and we need greater cooperation in terms of cracking down on those groups,

China should go on cracking down on serious cases while it educates, persuades and redeems those misdemeanors,

He's a character. In practice he's cracking jokes all the time to get us going. When we're going in practice, if somebody fouls him he'll exaggerate it and make all kinds of noise. It's just simple stuff like that that makes us laugh. He's a big, great guy.

He was in a good mood, cracking jokes. We didn't talk much about (the shooting). We tried to get his mind off it and talk about other stuff. He's like a brother to us.

There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.

He's doing good, still cracking jokes at us. He's got a great spirit about it. He's planning on coming back full strength. It's just a matter of time, and we're all here behind him.

I firmly believe we have a cracking dressing room now where nothing is off-limits in terms of what we discuss and what we can say to each other, and it is taken the correct way.

He hit the ball about 25 yards out and scored. It was a cracking goal.

My wife (Jenny) gets mad at me sometimes because I'm always cracking jokes, ... Sometimes I don't take things too seriously. But laughter is the best medicine. If you're laughing, life is better.

Last year I was coming in as a sixth or seventh guy. I did not have much confidence and I did not know if I was cracking the lineup consistently.

I think everybody's on the same page with the stated objective of cracking down on pedophiles and sexual predators.

Tremendous, little short of superb. On cracking form.

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

We were speaking with people who said it was cracking and leaking, and they were afraid it could fail. I guess that's why it was given a priority.

We're waiting for their response so we can get cracking before Easter.

We're a good skating team, but we need to identify some definitive goal scorers. In our last game (vs. C-C), we had 33 shots on net but only scored one goal. We need to do a better job of cracking the cage.

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.

We really turned it around at the end of last season and beat four teams that had beaten us. We're hoping to start fast this year. We have some high hopes, at least cracking the .500 mark both in conference and overall.

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

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.

The police are back to their old habits of cracking down on the Brotherhood.

We were all talking and cracking jokes, then all of a sudden there's a big bang. We all got tossed around inside a little bit. It was a little of a wakeup call for all of us.

While severely cracking down upon an extremely few corrupt elements, we should focus on education and prevention of corruption regarding the vast majority of CPC functionaries.

You have to be very calm, especially in the most clutch situations in a game. If the other team sees that a goalie is calm and relaxed in the heat of battle, that's a pretty intimidating thing. They know they are not breaking nor cracking him.

When he had a scene, we would stand like a set away and watch, and we were just cracking up. He would just sit funny. And stand funny. He was just so funny in everything he did.

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Years from now, when I think about working with Jen, I will remember cracking up during the commercials and having to suddenly sober up in time for the news to come back on. We could press each other's buttons. She knew exactly what I thought was funny. A lot of times we were giggling within seconds of the camera going on.

We're going to miss coming in here and hearing Hugh laughing and cracking jokes. He was a great player for us and a great person for us. So, this really hurts. We understand it's a business and these things happen all the time. But it still hurts.

where the population was predominantly white, where FEMA got cracking in a hurry.

At a certain point, we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate.

Everyone's taken a liking to him. He's a pretty likable guy. He enjoys it. He's always having fun, always cracking jokes with everybody and he doesn't want to leave anybody out.

I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.

Things are just popping and cracking all over the north part of the county.

The supreme court stirred up trouble with its recent decision supporting a government ordinance cracking down hard on the press, and it is now time for the Nepalese judicial system to put itself at the forefront of the struggle to ensure respect for the constitution and civil liberties.

We know a lot about the cracking phenomenon, but we still haven't pinpointed the cause. We know it's related to the chill down process and to some pressurization of the tank, but how those fit together...it's not an easy problem.

When we played at Texas A&M this year, we got called four times for balks, and the balk calls on our club are way up. Last weekend in California, we got called for balks. Umpires are cracking down on it.

It would be nice to give it more thought, ... but I understand the need to get cracking and not let the perfect be the enemy of the possible.

There will definitely be three players from Leeds involved and it will be a cracking atmosphere, there's no doubt.

It was weird at first but then it was kind of fun. I was just laughing and cracking jokes, being a cheerleader.

The red, hooded sweatshirt might point to some direction some way investigators can go. It could also be the key to cracking the case.

We've had a good week. We've had a cracking result against Chelsea and Bolton at home and we needed to come away from home and get something.

A cracking game full of excitement until the last and plenty of enthusiasm

Rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General (Alberto) Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.

Now, I'm cracking that door for you a little bit here, you know.

They started cracking jokes, and I said: 'Ain't nothing funny when I have to work the next day.'

The result of the cracking is to relax the interior and exterior field to a less twisted state. This has very little impact on the star itself, other than the fact that it will take time to twist up the field again.

This amendment, similar to the successful legislation in Texas, is true tort reform, setting forth strong but fair medical criteria to determine the truly sick, but cracking down on fraud and allowing companies a fair chance to defend themselves.

I've got the support of so many people. Rainer Bonhof assured me I've got a future, as did Walter Smith. I also got a phone call from Ally McCoist while I was in hospital. Ally was his usual jovial self and spent most of the call cracking jokes and winding me up. That helped me smile again and I'm much more positive now.

I must express increasing concern over the continuing deterioration of the Schoharie Dam. Increasingly serious diagonal cracking in the valve chamber tower, and sagging of the concrete ceiling of the access gallery may indicate settling of that structure.

I made it through to the end, but not without my horse dying, cracking a bone in my hand and the odd interesting encounter with the Indian army.

I'm looking forward to it. It should be a cracking game.

If you come and look at it, it's really obvious the roots are causing the cracking in the concrete. It's really clear there's a threat there.

In the last few months, Syria has been cracking down on Islamic insurgents and is trying to open up an intelligence dialogue with the US and show that they are cooperating.

I hope that maybe it just gets them to think there are cops out there and they are going to be cracking down more on drunk driving.

I'm not going to start the game by cracking a cat in the skull if I don't get elbowed first.

The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches.

The thing is the guys battled. They didn't stop. I think the team as a group are fairly resilient, fairly together. I don't see them cracking in spite of any of the adversity we face.

But I have to be pleased at how we have started. We've played some good football, it has been exciting and we've scored some cracking goals.

He's that rock, that guy in the locker room you are always looking for. He's that guy that is cracking jokes and keeping practice lively.

They were all cracking beers open and just enjoying themselves because they didn't have to go to work. I was waiting for a bullet to come through and shatter all over us. I was smoking my brains out too.

It was pretty tough because he's a great leader. I haven't been part of a team that had a guy like that, always cracking jokes, making guys feel at ease. It's a joy to play with that guy.

(It was) like a giant hand reaching down from the sky, grabbing me like a frog, and throwing me full force into a concrete wall. I looked back just in time to see the water as it hit me ... I felt my life flash before my eyes ... I slammed into the rock, on my side. And I could feel the cracking of bone.

It was a cracking game of football, with two teams going hammer and tongs for 90 minutes. These players always keep going to the end and have done that four or five times already this season.

The movie is not all swimming and that was a huge goal to show outside the pool. People see me cracking jokes and go, 'I didn't know you were funny.

You've got people cracking codes and then someone responsible for storing the data. It's not like the mob sitting around a table. They are out in cyberspace, and they may never meet.

All I'd heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machine-gun fire and distant German voices.

All further relations with Saudi Arabia must be entirely contingent on the kingdom's progress cracking down, reigning in and snuffing out its terrorist problem. Deeds -- not words -- must be the benchmark of Saudi progress in solving the terrorist problem that threatens its society as much as it threatens our own.

The focus has got to be on understanding the cracking phenomenon and working out an engineering solution, and then that will drive us to what we think the right period is for launch. We don't need to have a flight this spring to make the 19 flights.

For everyday diners in Manhattan, cracking the waiting list at Nobu is said to be harder than getting courtside tickets for the Knicks.

It's sickening to think that a woman claiming to help other mums generate an income while looking after their children was also involved in spam campaigns that promoted adult pornographic websites. The US computer crime authorities are cracking down harder than ever on those responsible for sending spam, and they should be congratulated for bringing another culprit to justice. Firm action is required worldwide to send a strong message to spammers that their activities are simply unacceptable.

That put an additional 100 people a day in our jail, ... That puts us further behind the curve. Part of it has been caused by all of the child molestations. They are just cracking down, and judges are very concerned about releasing people.

You can hear tree limbs cracking and all of a sudden you look up, and there's a 500-pound limb falling. It is a mess, and we're trying to bring some order to the mess.

It's good for me, ... You get in a rut playing with the same guys. It's fun to get out there with guys who appreciate it. After 40 years, practice rounds can be a bore. I get out with these guys, and they're cracking jokes.

It's a very funny play so it's very hard to get through a whole rehearsal without cracking up.

It looks like a hard nut to crack, because the security industry has not had any historical experience cracking this particular nut.

I am not going to get too carried away, ... But it is a good three points and we have made a pleasing start to the season. We have a lot of cracking young players who can only go on to achieve bigger and better things.

He's nervous about it. I think it's hilarious -- all these dogs, swimming around. It's cracking me up.

He really did seem to brighten every room that he ever walked in. He managed to get a smile over almost anyone. No matter how upset the adults were with him, they would end up cracking up.

He believes it is incumbent upon elected officials to do all they can to bring in new revenues without hiking taxes. The controller believes that we can bring more money into government by rooting out waste, implementing procurement reform, cracking down on tax cheats, and hiring more auditors.

The law basically says that if you crack a system meant to protect a copyright work, you go to jail; if you produce software for the purpose of cracking anti-circumvention measures, you go to jail.

And if they want me to learn from guys like that, sure. You see (Lynch) on the highlights and he's just cracking people.