Tony Dorsett

I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.

American Athlete

Jay Park

I don't really get embarrassed a lot because I feel like life goes on. I mean, I fell on stage one time; like, I tripped one time. My voice cracked... That's pretty embarrassing.

American Musician

Paul Westerberg

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

Guy Pearce

I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There's no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely.

English Actor

Ray Comfort

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

New Zealander Clergyman

Norm MacDonald

All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.

Canadian Actor

Joanna Lumley

I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.

English Actress

Margaret Stohl

I always say, 'I'm cracked. My characters are cracked. And you, reader, you're cracked, too.

American Author

George Groves

Motivational talks are something I have been asked to do and i fancy taking a crack at it.

British Athlete

Chace Crawford

Really, I'm pretty laid-back, always cracking jokes.

American Actor

Usually refers to small, visible spaces in solid materials.

Physical Gap

Can describe divisions in non-physical things, like communities or relationships.

Metaphorical Use

Refers to a noise that's brief and often startling.

Sudden Sharp Sound

When paired with a sound, it indicates a loud and powerful occurrence of that sound.

Indicates Intensity

To crack something does not mean it's completely broken; it may still function.

Imperfect Breaking

Often used when someone succeeds in understanding something difficult.

Figurative Achievement

In informal speech, it suggests trying something challenging with a positive attitude.

Casual Challenge

Used in serious contexts like news or health discussions about drug abuse.

Drug Reference

 I grabbed this guy's leg and I bit him on the inside of the thigh just as hard as I could but he was wearing these big baggy pants and all I got was fabric and I cracked my front teeth and as I was trying to bite him his friend just kept kicking me in the head in the back repeatedly until finally he said give me

How math saved my life PIPE...

 involves some additional challenge on top of that. The risk is that if somebody figures out how to crack the first challenge without also having cracked the additional challenge of ensuring perfect safety. So I think that we should work out a solution to the control problem in advance,

What happens when our...

 That's why they're known as mucus membranes. Mucus plays lots of roles in your body. It keeps delicate tissues from drying out and cracking, which would expose them to infection. It lubricates your eyes so you can blink. It protects your stomach lining from acid.

How mucus keeps us...

 of quantum information science, a growing field studying how to use the laws of the strange quantum world in our macroscopic world, like in quantum cryptography, so spies can send secure messages to each other, or quantum computing, for cracking secret codes.

What can Schrödinger's...

 Whether or not you believe in them, you're probably familiar with a few of these superstitions. So how did it happen that people all over the world knock on wood, or avoid stepping on sidewalk cracks? Well, although they have no basis in science,

Where do superstitions...

 and the sense of motion. It also plays with our ability to abstract and make complex associations. Look at the following sentence. "The world was ghost-quiet, except for the crack of sails and the burbling of water against hull."

How to write descriptivel...

 The words in the lockers that remain open at the end will help you crack the code for the safe. Before cousin Thaddeus can even start down the line, you step forward and tell the lawyer you know which lockers will remain open.

Can you solve the locker...

 that help clean up any bone or cartilage debris that ends up in the joint. But the reason it's important for knuckle cracking is that, like other fluids in your body, it contains lots of dissolved gas molecules.

Why do your knuckles...

 It's what's brought me here. To this cracked, eroded landscape. Like Mars, it's dry, barren, and incredibly ornate. The carved canyons, long shadows, deep craters,

How the Mojave Desert...

 and they're strong enough to lift the equivalent of ten house bricks being big has allowed them to cultivate some rare talents true to their name they can crack a

Crack