I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.
He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a. 44 revolver in his pocket.
What you don't want to do is dig around here like a groundhog on crack.
Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.
When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.
Chennai is one of the scariest crowds to face. Everyone looks so conservative, but once you crack the first joke, they are so appreciatively loud that they will hit you with a laugh that will scare you stiff and yet give you energy. Chennaiites give me the loudest laughs; it's the coolest crowd to perform for.
That's my only goal: Stay off crack.
I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.
We're in a society where no one's putting a gun to your head and making you use your phone, but some people start to crack. "I Want the Heartbeat" is about the downside of it. People can and do break up friendships and relationships because of the internet, and that can't be good. You have to find a balance. You can't let it be the boss of you.
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within.
The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.
I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.
All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
If you're dumb enough to do crack, you're supposed to die. It's evolution.
The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, things don't go as expected. We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual.
Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.
Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.