Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
Gustav Mahler

For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.
Mel Carnahan

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.
Patricia Highsmith

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
Edward Hopper

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.
Scotty McCreery

If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead.
Nikki Sixx

Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of cracking down on countries who export the materials to create meth into the United States.
Mark Kennedy

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
Gene Tierney

Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
Damon Hill

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Don DeLillo

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.
Nikki Sixx

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.
Lenny Kravitz