“Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it”
Mos Def (1973) American rapper and actor
From "Hip-Hop"
Album Black On Both Sides
June 29, 1972 homily.
“Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it”
Mos Def (1973) American rapper and actor
From "Hip-Hop"
Album Black On Both Sides
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Torvalds Slams SCO, 2003-08-20, Galli, Peter, 2008-03-01, eWeek http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Past-News/Torvalds-Slams-SCO/, <br class="br">Notes: said about SCO. <br class="br">2000s, 2000-04
Bill Burr (1968) American actor, comedian and a celebrity podcaster
Premium Blend, episode [2.03], June 20, 1998
“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“There is a crack in every thing God has made.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/16/light/
Context: Siegfried, in the Nibelungen, is not quite immortal, for a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the Dragon’s blood, and that spot which it covered is mortal. And so it always is. There is a crack in every thing God has made.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Music Grinders; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Awakened at midnight
by the sound of the water jar
cracking from the ice”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
“Some mysteries are better off with their throats slit.”
Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 2 “Requin” section 3 (p. 95)