Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Crumble Quotes from famous authors such as David Levering Lewis, Rudolf Nureyev, Corin Tucker, David Haye, Jean Hanff Korelitz. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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Harlem was the main chance for the east end of New York, for eastsiders, as that real estate boom that took place in the 1890s – and it was a preposterous one where people bought and sold, and everything appreciated with each sale – and eventually, of course, the house of cards would crumble.
2
I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don’t, I will crumble.
3
I don’t always succeed in creating a delicious dinner for my family; I would, however, argue for the likely success of Taco Night. Who doesn’t love a taco? Make it with veggie crumbles! Add fish! Have you tried ground buffalo? The results are always impressive.
4
The bigger the pressure, the sharper I am, the more in tune with my body I am, the better my tactics seem to be. A lot of people crumble under pressure; they do something crazy.
5
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What’s interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they’ve changed and grown, if indeed they have.
6
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
7
Certain people get an opportunity because they happen to be in the right place at the right time. It has no bearing on their talent. I don’t think we should look at it and feel bitter about it. That’s the way the cookie crumbles in all professions.
8
I love apple crumble and custard – that’s my little treat.
9
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
10
You’re taught from the day you start medical school that you’re a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror – and you know that power is flawed – it is very hard to get past that.
11
Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won’t crumble around me.
12
‘Bum’s Rush’ is a piece about timing, and everything that’s in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.
13
As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible – sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity.
14
I’ve a belt that I have worn for every single stand-up comedy session since I was 19. I fear if I ever lose it, my career would crumble. That’s my one OCD.
15
The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that’s not the case.
16
When I teach master classes, I tell young singers if the foundation isn’t good, the house will crumble.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
18
That morning of 11 September 2001, as we watched the twin towers crumble on live television, America and I would develop a bond that has proven deeper and more enduring – for better or worse, through sickness and health – than the one I had with my now ex-husband.
19
If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.
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I’ve gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it’s straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.
21
The film I think was a good film for what it was designed for. It was for kids. Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started but that is just the way the cookie crumbles.
22
When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases each day, there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it, we see families crumble, leadership weaken, and hard workers grow tired.
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We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton’s, or Abraham Lincoln’s?
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I feel the bigger the stage, the pressure starts to get to others and they crumble. I feel like this is where I shine the brightest and perform the best.
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The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don’t, it crumbles.
27
A lot of teams with expectations crumble.
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My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble.
29
When I was in graduate school, I became very interested in why some kids took on challenges and were able to bounce back from setbacks whereas others shy away from difficulty and really crumble when they hit failures. I became fascinated with people who had that kind of courage to take on challenges.
30
What irks me most about Shilpa is that she can get extremely hyper. I ask her to calm down. She’s become a lot more placid than before. Any major news and her whole world crumbles in front of her. I’m the calming factor in her life.
31
I was a war correspondent. I’ve watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
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If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won’t crumble.
33
We aren’t made to be worshipped as humans. I think that is why we see so many great artists crumble, because as humans, we are made to serve each other.
34
They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.
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There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can’t back up what they’re asking.
36
My girlfriend buys stuff from Trader Joe’s, and it’s just subpar. When you buy a burrito, it crumbles the way a proper burrito shouldn’t. Everything’s just crap there.
37
I’ve seen teams and I’ve been on teams where, when adversity hits you, you kind of crumble.
38
We rely on our partners, but if we’re not stable within, we crumble in our relationships, too.
39
Making crumble is one of my favourite things in the world – I add oats, berries, honey and cinnamon.
40
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.