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Cracked Quotes

You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.

Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.95, Thomas Nelson Inc

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.26, Anchor

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

Erica Jong (2007). “Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters”, p.90, Penguin

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

"Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2006.

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding (1970). “The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle”

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.920, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Life cracked like ice!

F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.204, Cambridge University Press

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

"Coming of Age with the Ephron Sisters—and Their Mother" by Hallie Ephron, www.oprah.com. March 2013.

We cracked up together, which was necessary, because she loved me again.

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.303, Macmillan

Goodbyes weren't all they were cracked up to be

Abbi Glines (2014). “The Fallen Too Far Trilogy: Includes Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far and Forever Too Far”, p.162, Simon and Schuster