Crossed Quotes

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
Eminem

Mind, Black, Trying

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather

After, Until, Creek

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Bill Gates

Idea, Line, Finish

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
Anna Quindlen

Life, Change, Mind

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Victor Hugo

Work, Eyes, Both

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
Jane Austen

Love, Girl, Married

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
Harriet Tubman

Freedom, Strange, Free

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering

Storm, Off, Ocean

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'
Larry David

Happy, Word, Anyone

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.
Amy Adams

Great, Revenge, Forget

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Young, Old, Born

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
David Bailey

Keep, Tried, Fingers

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
Lech Walesa

Sympathy, Past, Silence

I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.
Nolan Ryan

Time, Today, Blessed

When I was a 21-year-old intern at CBS, I was told I had crossed eyes and shouldn't try to be on air. That's when I decided I was going to be behind the scenes.
Andy Cohen

Eyes, Try, Behind

I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.
Andy Cohen

Gay, Eyes, Wanted

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.
Roberta Flack

Book, Real, Serious

I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up.
Kato Kaelin

Mind, Thinking, Everything

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Richard M. DeVos

Idea, Line, Finish

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.
Mike Wallace

Age, Time, School

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
Cordell Hull

After, Insult, Until

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.
Cecil B. DeMille

When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.
Ella Maillart

Friend, Same, Journey

I put everything in that last lap, it was very emotional when I crossed the line. It was all I had, I gave it all.
Sebastian Vettel

Emotional, Everything, Put

Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
Jon Landau

Music, End, Black

John Lennon was a musical genius. All I have to do is think of some of his songs and even the titles make me feel good... and I'm not the only one. His music has crossed cultures and even generations.
Ray Comfort

Music, Good, Genius

I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed.
Joe Lando

Job, Looking, Actor

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.
Rob Zombie

Music, Movies, Made

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.
Rickey Henderson

Reason, Plate, Bases

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