Crawford Quotes & Sayings

I'm comfortable in my own skin. I know I'm not going to ever be Cindy Crawford or Elle MacPherson. — Giada De Laurentiis

When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up. — Bill Crawford

So, as Lymond strode out and stopped, rigid and white by the doorpost, Sybilla set eyes on Francis, the son of her heart; and so Francis Crawford, after four years of unharnessed power, came face to face at last with his mother.

And Kate, falling upon the door and looking up at her self-contained relative by marriage, saw his face torn apart and left, raw as a wound without features; only pain and shock and despair and appalled recognition, all the more terrible for being perfectly voiceless. — Dorothy Dunnett

I was definitely very intimidated, but the instant Meryl Streep said 'Hi' to me, it all went away. — Lilla Crawford

Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everything well all the time. When you live your life like that, it's a huge relief. — Cindy Crawford

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them. — Bill Crawford

There is no such consolation to a born coward as a logical reason for not doing what he is afraid to do — Francis Marion Crawford

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips. — Bill Crawford

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care ... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference. — Michael Crawford

Eataly is the greatest - it's like food galore there. They have all of these little stations, like a pasta area and a pizza area. And they have the best gelato. — Lilla Crawford

It's very advantageous to be sensitive with your work - and, yet, being sensitive, in reality, when criticized, it can annihilate you. It can destroy you. And with the internet there sometimes is a lot of harm, which I find must be very difficult for youngsters coming on - it can be very harsh; the criticism. And, sometimes, it can be a little cruel - which makes it hard for young performers coming on. — Michael Crawford

I must be very complex, judging by the number of days determined to define me. — Spuds Crawford

There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil. — Stanley Crawford

We want to feel that our world is intelligible, so we can be responsible for — Matthew B. Crawford

There are things I'd wish weren't part of ageing. But what you gain is much more than you're giving up. I don't think you come into your own until you're 35 or so. — Cindy Crawford

1. Find your own style and have the courage to stick to it.
2. Choose your clothes for your way of life.
3. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.
4. Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.
5. Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are! — Joan Crawford

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears. — Bill Crawford

That Crawford Tilinghast should ever have studied science and philosophy was a mistake. These things should be left to the frigid and impersonal investigator for they offer two equally tragic alternatives to the man of feeling and action; despair, if he fail in his quest, and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed. — H.P. Lovecraft

The media have become masters at packaging stimuli in ways that our brains find irresistible, just as food engineers have become expert in creating "hyperpalatable" foods by manipulating levels of sugar, fat, and salt.11 Distractibility might be regarded as the mental equivalent of obesity. — Matthew B. Crawford

Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it. — Cindy Crawford

It would have made a fitting tomb, she supposed, for Thady Boy Ballagh. That it was fitting for Francis Crawford she would not believe. — Dorothy Dunnett

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst. — Joan Crawford

Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want ... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning. — Bill Crawford

Even if a life has traveled down an unproductive path, you can find your faith again; pure faith, which is loyalty to God himself. Dark seasons of trial can also become the backdrop for an even greater revelation of truth. — Beverly Crawford

I don't really have a favorite pop artist - I just listen to some pop songs here and there. Mostly, though, it's Beyonce and show tunes. — Lilla Crawford

So I think when you tap into something that you really want to do, you have to fight for it, even if the fight is with yourself. — Brent Crawford

Just because we have a thought, doesn't mean it is a thought worth having. — Bill Crawford

Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go. — Bill Crawford

Sure, a surgeon can stand to look at a mutilated body," Crawford said, crumpling his cup and stepping on the pedal of the covered wastebasket. "But I don't think a doctor can stand to see a life wasted. — Thomas Harris

I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do. — Cindy Crawford

Everything that happens in our lives is "good information" about the degree to which our choices are working for us. We can, however, choose to believe that we are a victim of the world we see, and have no choices. And, of course, we will receive "good information" about this belief as well. — Bill Crawford

If you throw a lamb chop in the oven, what's to keep it from getting done? — Joan Crawford

There are two ways to make someone important in our lives ... we can either love them or hate them. — Bill Crawford

The 1930s Hollywood was capable of hurting me so much. The things about Hollywood that could hurt me (when I first came) can't touch me now. I suddenly decided that they shouldn't hurt me - that was all. — Joan Crawford

Talent is nothing without persistence. — Dean Crawford

Truth means facing denial and saying I know who I am, I know who I need to be and I'm not afraid to become that person no matter what...Never be without fear; but Letti, never be without fight. — S.R. Crawford

I had always known what I wanted, and that was beauty ... in every form ... a beautiful house, beautiful man, a beautiful life and image. I was ambitious to get the money which would attain all that for me. — Joan Crawford

An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: "You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than up steps. Never mind! win the good opinions of washerwomen and such like, and in time you will hear of their recommendations of you to the wealthier families by whom they are employed." I did so, and found it succeed as predicted. — William Crawford Williamson

There's no such thing as a 'stressful' situation. — Bill Crawford

the infallible judgment of reality, where one's failures or shortcomings cannot be interpreted away. — Matthew B. Crawford

There's nothing wrong with my tits but I don't go around throwing them in people's faces. — Joan Crawford

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. - JOAN CRAWFORD — Jill Alexander Essbaum

When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future. — Bill Crawford

Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism. — Bill Crawford

One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long. — Bill Crawford

A dam doesn't try to reason with the water. Its main purpose is to hold it still for a while. When I lecture my kids I'm doing much the same thing. I'm not trying to necessarily reason with them, just hold them still for a short while. — Spuds Crawford

Keep your head up and your hopes high, friend; anything is possible. — S.R. Crawford

Just because you can wear a micro-miniskirt it doesn't mean you should. You don't need to show your midriff, either, if you're over 40. — Cindy Crawford

There's only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself. — S.R. Crawford

First, I started taking dance classes, and then I started taking singing lessons. Then my mom put me into a year-round theatre program where I did seven shows. — Lilla Crawford

Like most discontented and disappointed people who have no real object in life, Orsino Saracinesca read a good deal ... — Francis Marion Crawford

If we follow the traces of our own actions to their source, they intimate some understanding of the good life. This understanding may be hard to articulate; bringing it more fully into view is the task of moral inquiry. Such inquiry may be helped along by practical activities in company with others, a sort of conversation in deed. In this conversation lies the potential of work to bring some measure of coherence to our lives. — Matthew B. Crawford

But some people don't appreciate my bossiness. — Cindy Crawford

The appeal of magic is that it promises to render objects plastic to the will without one's getting too entangled with them. Treated from arm's length, the object can issue no challenge to the self. According to Freud, this is precisely the condition of the narcissist: he treats objects as props for his fragile ego and has an uncertain grasp of them as having a reality of their own. The clearest contrast to the narcissist that I can think of is the repairman, who must subordinate himself to the broken washing machine, listen to it with patience, notice its symptoms, and then act accordingly. He cannot treat it abstractly; the kind of agency he exhibits is not at all magical. — Matthew B. Crawford

Choose your clothes for your way of life. — Joan Crawford

The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain. — Bill Crawford

I wouldnt piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire — Bette Davis

Learn to breathe, learn to speak , but first ..learn to feel — Joan Crawford

I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them. — Bernie Mac

I find suggestion a hell of a lot more provocative than explicit detail. You didn't see Clark[Gable] and Vivien[leigh] rolling around in bed in Gone With The Wind, but you saw that shit eating grin on her face the next morning and you knew damned well she'd gotten properly laid. — Joan Crawford

I moved out to New Zealand to live as I thought the warmth and peace and quiet would help me. I went away and changed my whole life routine. — Michael Crawford

Obviously, your family life is the priority, but there's still other stuff you have to get done in a day. I think the way I make it work is by taking care of myself, and that includes fitness and eating right and all those things, but also by being very organized and punctual. — Cindy Crawford

The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives. — Bill Crawford

If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big. — Broderick Crawford

Finally when he climbed below deck after dark, wondering where his dinner was, perhaps with a storm come up and rough seas and blinding rains, I'd sulk and lure him into the warm and steamy darkness and from the hairs of his warm body I'd breed a myriad smiling, sparkle-eyed one-year-olds, my broods, my flocks. In the churning seas, below the waves, together inside our hammock woven in coarse sailcloth by Unguentine's deft hands, a spherical webbed sack which hung and swivelled between the two walls of our bedroom, we would spin round and round with lapping tongues and the soft suction of lips, whirling, our amorous centrifuge, all night long, zipped inside against the elements. Now, years and years later, those nights, the thought and touch of them is enough to make me throw myself down on the ground and roll in the dust like a hen nibbled by mites, generating clouds, stars and all the rest. — Stanley Crawford

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame. — Bill Crawford

Ohhh, OH no you didn't!" he screams. "Nobody touches the TERRY!" Then he starts punching himself in he face. This kid really is crazy! I may not even have to fight him. He's doing it for me, and I'm winning! — Brent Crawford

My life would be a lot easier if I enjoyed it more. — Brent Crawford

Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand. — Carl Crawford

We had a moment in the '40s and '50s, where female characters were very strong in film, where these incredible roles were written for women like Joan Crawford, like Bette Davis. But then there was a space of time where - I don't know why - it wasn't like that. It became difficult for women to find certain roles after a certain age. — Monica Bellucci

Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills. — Roger Crawford

A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing. — Bill Crawford

When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster. — Joan Crawford

There are only three things we 'have to' do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice! — Bill Crawford

Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house. — Joan Crawford

God blesses us financially "so that" we can be a blessing to others. — Danette Crawford

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic. — Broderick Crawford

There are two ways to look at most problems ... 'Oh Crap!' or, 'Good Information!,' and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future. — Bill Crawford

To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch, ... It's the strangest method of grieving I've seen since Paul Wellstone's funeral. Someone needs to teach these liberals how to mourn. — Ann Coulter

If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody — Joan Crawford

You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious. — Bill Crawford

All we want is justice for John Crawford and everyone responsible for John Crawford's death should be held responsible, the criminal justice system refused to hold those accountable so the civil system must. — Michael Wright

Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity. — Matthew B. Crawford

Yet this disburdening gives us fewer occasions for the experience of direct responsibility. — Matthew B. Crawford

EJ cries, "We've been best friends since kindergarten. You can't become a babe slayer and leave me in the dust! I don't have an older sister. I'm disadvantaged. All I got is Emmy, who can only drop preschool wisdom like, 'No pull Barbie's hair!'"
"That's probably some early girl wisdom. Nobody likes to get their hair pulled," I say. "Except this one chick in my porno; I think she's into it. I cant really tell, though. I wish they would slow down. — Brent Crawford

...an external reward can affect one's interpretation of one's own motivation, and interpretation that comes to be self-fulfilling. A similar effect may account for the familiar fact that when someone turns his hobby into a business, he often loses pleasure in it. Likewise, an intellectual who pursues an academic career gets professionalized, and this may lead him to stop thinking. This line of reasoning suggests that the kind of appreciative attention where one remains focused on what one is doing can arise only in leisure activities. Such a conclusion would put pleasurable absorption beyond the ken of any activity that is undertaken for the sake of making money, because although money is undoubtedly good, it is not intrinsically so. — Matthew Crawford

You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas ... and the biggest decision is when do you go mountain bike riding. — George W. Bush

A watched pot never boils. That's why I boil water, instead. — Nathanielle Sean Crawford

The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done. — Bill Crawford

I purposefully abstain from dates on this occasion,that very one may be liberty to fix their own,aware that the cure of unconquerable passions,and the transfer of unchanging attachments,must vary much as to time in different people.
I only entreat every body to believe that exactly at the time when it was quite natural that it should be so, and not a week earlier,Edmund did cease to care about Miss Crawford, and become anxious to marry Fanny,as Fanny herself could desire. — Jane Austen

Next to blood relationships, come water relationships. — Stanley Crawford

I'm actually happier with my body now ... because the body I have now is the body I've worked for. I have a better relationship with it. From a purely aesthetic point of view, my body was better when I was 22, 23. But I didn't enjoy it. I was too busy comparing it to everyone else's. — Cindy Crawford

OK then, picture daddy; whenever you're afraid just close your eyes and picture me. I'll be all that exists in your world and I promise to protect you. — S.R. Crawford

The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them. — Bill Crawford

Twitter is just like posting old-fashioned press releases, and it can be very effective in promoting your business interests and charity work. — Cindy Crawford

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be. — Mercedes McCambridge

It was Ernie Haller, who had photographed Bette Davis in Jezebel and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind, who was solely responsible for the visuals in Mildred Pierce, said Crawford. "Ernie was at the rehearsals. And so was Mr. [Anton] de Grot, who did the sets. I recall seeing Ernie's copy of the script and it was filled with notations and diagrams. I asked him if these were for special lights and he said, 'No, they're for special shadows.' Now, that threw me. I was a little apprehensive. I was used to the look of Metro, where everything, including the war pictures, was filmed in blazing white lights. Even if a person was dying there was no darkness. But when I saw the rushes of Mildred Pierce I realized what Ernie was doing. The shadows and half-lights, the way the sets were lit, together with the unusual angles of the camera, added considerably to the psychology of my character and to the mood and psychology of the film. And that, my dear, is film noir." "Mildred — Shaun Considine

When Philippa had first demanded his help in eluding Kate and travelling to St Mary's, he had indignantly refused. He was there now because he had discovered, to his astonishment, that she was desperate, and perfectly capable of going without him. Why she had got it into her young head she must see this man Crawford, Cheese-wame didn't know. But after pointing out bitterly that (a) he would lose his job; (b) the rogues in the Debatable would kill them, (c) that she would catch her death of cold and (d) that Kate would never speak to either of them again, he went, his belt filled with knives and her belongings as well as his own in the two saddlebags behind his powerful thighs, while Philippa rode sedately beside him on her smaller horse, green with excitement, with her father's pistol tied to her waist like a ship's log and banging against her thin knees. — Dorothy Dunnett

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults? — Bill Crawford

Anaxagoras wrote, It is by having hands that man is the most intelligent of animals. — Matthew B. Crawford