Crystal Hawkins quote: "On Friday night, I was notified by one of my residents that a hurricane was coming. By morning, everyone was crying, asking me what's going on and what to do. Ms. Darby -- the dorm parent who I report to -- asked me to announce that the school was to be evacuated by 4 o'clock."

First United Methodist Church has a van that's taking us to Birmingham.
CRYSTAL HAWKINS

From what I understand, no one's hurt, but my mom wouldn't tell me if she's not doing well anyway. S...
CRYSTAL HAWKINS

We would have left campus earlier, but one of our buses broke down right before we left. We had to w...
CRYSTAL HAWKINS

The more you can understand the beauty of nature, the more you can understand the nature of nature
CRYSTAL

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL

Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ...
DAVID CRYSTAL

The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I wa...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I've been bisexual for as long as I can remember. I remember being made fun of in junior high fo...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX

I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual comm...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audi...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I'm not sure why there's this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX

We're seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids sho...
BILLY CRYSTAL

The reason we are together is because she puts lead in my shoes and doesn't let me fly off the earth...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Gentlemen, start your egos.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the...
BILLY CRYSTAL

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your li...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I've seen worse. . . . It just so happens that your friend here is mostly dead. There's a big differ...
BILLY CRYSTAL

This guy was so large, he had his own climate.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Change is such hard work
BILLY CRYSTAL

There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the ...
DAVID CRYSTAL

Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplatin...
BILLY CRYSTAL

He said I'm the winning lottery ticket, like he's never meant anything more.
CRYSTAL WOODS

Unknowingly, he prepared me to survive the rest of my days with the way he shielded himself from emo...
CRYSTAL WOODS

Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened a...
CRYSTAL WOODS

Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are t...
DAVID CRYSTAL

Life's a battlefield, and we remain loyal to those who fight for us; those who'd die for us.
CRYSTAL WOODS

When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never ...
CRYSTAL WOODS

I want to take all our best moments, put them in a jar, and take them out like cookies and savor eac...
CRYSTAL WOODS

I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your ...
CRYSTAL WOODS

Part of the desire to see each other succeed is to stop putting a price on success.
CRYSTAL EVANS

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.
BILLY CRYSTAL

You look marvelous.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like ha...
CRYSTAL EASTMAN

Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threat...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not...
DAVID CRYSTAL

People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between ac...
DAVID CRYSTAL

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of ...
DAVID CRYSTAL

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices. And the Internet is a...
DAVID CRYSTAL

Over the last 50 years or so, we have seen an increasing cultural diversification across the country...
DAVID CRYSTAL

I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not ta...
CRYSTAL WATERS

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independe...
CRYSTAL EASTMAN

My mum, Helen, was hilarious. She had a tremendous sense of humour and was a great singer and tap da...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I wish I could line up naked the men I've slept with and just gloat for a hot minute. Beautiful crea...
CRYSTAL WOODS

In the late 1960s, I was working as an usher for the New York stage production of 'You're a ...
BILLY CRYSTAL

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Roman...
DAVID CRYSTAL

I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. Tha...
CRYSTAL REED

One thing I've learned about myself is that I can accomplish anything I want to. The caveat is that ...
CRYSTAL WOODS

Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?
BILLY CRYSTAL

I don't think anyone's sexuality needs to be a public issue other than to give others the co...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with ...
CRYSTAL EASTMAN

I went into the 'Idol' audition with no expectations; that's just the kind of person I a...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put f...
DAVID CRYSTAL

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 i...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Of course my uncle was a giant, but my dad, in particular, had the house filled with these great Dix...
BILLY CRYSTAL

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody'...
CRYSTAL CHAPPELL

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
BILLY CRYSTAL

I was a good baseball player. I still play a couple of times a week as part of my daily workout. Jus...
BILLY CRYSTAL

When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson,...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I think it's like a relay race. You run, and you hand over the baton, and your kids pick it up. ...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Chemically, I'm as off as I can be. But you fix me.
CRYSTAL WOODS

Ali forced us to take a look at ourselves. This brash young man who thrilled us, angered us, confuse...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX

The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing ...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso or read a Shakespear...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Falling in love is easy. Falling in love with the same person repeatedly is extraordinary.
CRYSTAL WOODS

Time flies, whether you’re wasting it or not.
CRYSTAL WOODS

At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even w...
CRYSTAL WOODS

You can say now, 'I dissed him' - to diss, I dissed him - or, 'Stop dissing her'. An...
DAVID CRYSTAL

I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in ...
BILLY CRYSTAL

The secret to scooping ice cream is all about the scooper. You have to dip it in water before and af...
CRYSTAL REED

A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.
CRYSTAL WOODS

Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.
CRYSTAL WOODS

I had a dream about you last night. I was alone on a dark night and you came to me as a firefly. I k...
CRYSTAL WOODS

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.
DAVID CRYSTAL

The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet ...
DAVID CRYSTAL

Love is like a balloon.. when you push your relationship with someone forward it is like blowing up ...
CRYSTAL SOUTHERLAND

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.
DAVID CRYSTAL

When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, '...
DAVID CRYSTAL

In the moment where my mind, body and soul are assaulted I know that I'll never be the same ever aga...
CRYSTAL SPEARS

Name's Braxxon baby and I wanna touch an angel"- Braxxon
CRYSTAL SPEARS

It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its comm...
DAVID CRYSTAL

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with t...
CRYSTAL EASTMAN

We need mentors who are extremely dependable and consistent. These children, they've had many disapp...
CRYSTAL DAVIS

Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural i...
DAVID CRYSTAL

It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity h...
BILLY CRYSTAL

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.
DAVID CRYSTAL

We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existenc...
DAVID CRYSTAL

Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so...
DAVID CRYSTAL

Our professor was Marty Scorsese. Marty was a graduate student, or Mr. Scorsese, which is what I had...
BILLY CRYSTAL

One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it beca...
BILLY CRYSTAL

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.
CRYSTAL GAYLE

Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried...
DAVID CRYSTAL

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
BILLY CRYSTAL

We needed to get the bats going again. We were a little timid.
CRYSTAL BLAISDELL

I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answ...
CRYSTAL REED

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.
CRYSTAL EASTMAN

They're known sometimes as a guardian angel to their fellow marines and to watch over and protect th...
CRYSTAL MERILLAT

I think we're in good hands. There's definitely much more momentum in bringing in good thing...
CRYSTAL CHAPPELL

Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the t...
BILLY CRYSTAL

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly startin...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the...
DAVID CRYSTAL

The prop guys came in yelling, 'There's mercury on the set! It can get into your lungs, and it'll ki...
CRYSTAL HUNT

How do you spell the name of the Irish prime minister? It sounds like 'teeshuck', but we spe...
DAVID CRYSTAL

The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a way that would not hav...
DAVID CRYSTAL

I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do.
BILLY CRYSTAL

A lot of people have said we're too young, but that just means we're fearless. And that's something ...
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE

Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any
BILLY CRYSTAL

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight ...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
BILLY CRYSTAL

I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42....
BILLY CRYSTAL

So many cultures have been forced to turn away from their pasts. We even fly flags of forgotten king...
CRYSTAL BREWE

At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at...
DAVID CRYSTAL

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
DAVID CRYSTAL

Bill don't go, it's OK, we love you.
BILLY CRYSTAL

It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.
DAVID CRYSTAL

We have some good images of the suspect. We just haven't been able to ID who he is.
CRYSTAL CANDY

I could have done a lot more if I had the money. We really did a minimal campaign compared to some o...
CRYSTAL KENNEDY

It seems like a minimal time commitment, but it makes a big difference to the children.
CRYSTAL DAVIS

She challenges me, and at the same time, I challenge her, ... She's making me better. She's one of t...
CRYSTAL SMITH

This device was powerful enough that they felt the thud a mile or two away.
CRYSTAL CANDY

It'd be great to play Ohio State again. They beat us last year and knocked us out.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE

I knew it was between us and Ohio State once I saw Tennessee was in, but it just didn't go our way.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE

I was the first to say we got the monkey off our backs. Everybody was really happy about that win.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE

They will have the revenge factor going for them so we know we're going to have to bring our A game ...
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE

It's a new game so we're not looking at what happened in the past.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE

We got here really fast.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE

It wasn't one of my best games.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE

I consider those kind of like misses. I wasn't really paying attention.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE

I think we came out really well. We were intense, played great defense and I think we did a good job...
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE

You're either in it for the long haul or you're not.
CRYSTAL GAYLE

Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.
CRYSTAL WOODS

I have a lot of love and respect for Melissa Etheridge. I love Joe Cocker, Ray LaMontagne, Feist.
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX

I have performed my one-man show '700 Sundays' over 400 times now. There were only two times...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires givi...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
DAVID CRYSTAL

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally un...
DAVID CRYSTAL

Since I got into the movies, 'Running Scared,' that did $40 million. 'Princess Bride,...
BILLY CRYSTAL

To this day, with all of these muscle-bound guys, nobody hit the ball further than Mickey Mantle, wi...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I went to my first game May 30, 1956, and Mantle was in the beginnings of his Triple Crown season. A...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Something special for him but also to show the community that this was a marine who was proud to ser...
CRYSTAL MERILLAT

Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows th...
DAVID CRYSTAL

Everybody is OK, but since it is a deputy who is involved and we have shots fired, we have to do a f...
CRYSTAL CANDY

Even if most days can’t be half as good as today, it’s days like this that make it all worth it.
CRYSTAL WOODS

When we drove up to the cemetery that night, it was just like he had been killed all over again.
CRYSTAL MERILLAT

Certainly this is a public affairs school, and he's a former president, but I think he really excite...
CRYSTAL JONES

She tore the ACL in January, and was back in the team camp in June. That was an inspiration to the o...
CRYSTAL WILLIAMS

He used various techniques, including having other people distract the employees. He'd then go in an...
CRYSTAL CANDY

When she woke up happy, I said it worked he's like I guess it did, we couldn't believe it.
CRYSTAL JASKULA

Right now, I don't know how we gonna get through it. I mean, we're together, we trying to console on...
CRYSTAL JARVIS

My mom lived off the canal of a river, ... It looked like a bomb went off. I never thought it was go...
CRYSTAL DAVIS

We had no employees. He taught me how to drive a forklift.
CRYSTAL GOMEZ

It was them getting the ball to Davenport. We couldn't stop her.
CRYSTAL SMITH

They're becoming vicious. But it's not because they're hungry and they want to eat people. They're s...
CRYSTAL SMITH

She challenges me and at the same time I challenge her, ... She's making me better she's actually on...
CRYSTAL SMITH

We're just all sisters,
CRYSTAL SMITH

I was nervous about the change in the enrollment standards.
CRYSTAL SMITH

I want to let women know what they can expect, and that it is okay to feel confused, exhausted and o...
CRYSTAL SMITH

Where's our little baby who was so happy to be awake?
CRYSTAL JASKULA

I finally gave in today. Admitting that I haven't been able to do it alone, that's defeat right? But...
CRYSTAL WOODS

People thought this would be an award show -- but we couldn't get anybody to open up the envelopes. ...
BILLY CRYSTAL

I had a dream that Connie Chung is doing a newscast about my death and they show a clip from Soap.
BILLY CRYSTAL

I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.
BILLY CRYSTAL

They probably didn't want to put the generator outside for fear it would be stolen.
CRYSTAL HOLMES

I hope this event helps me with my problems of going nuts about the things I want.
CRYSTAL SMITH

There should be some good teams up there — Woodrow Wilson and Spring Valley come to mind right off...
CRYSTAL HACKNEY

I've noticed if you're a pug owner, you're pug-crazy.
CRYSTAL KEY

I know you think I'm crazy. Maybe that's because I am. About life, about this moment, about you.
CRYSTAL WOODS

Even before we met and long after we're both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I'm forever and e...
CRYSTAL WOODS

I'm such a strong human being. I amaze myself even. If only you knew what I've been up against, you'...
CRYSTAL WOODS

At this point, it appears to be a random act, and while nothing has been ruled out, it does not appe...
CRYSTAL CANDY

Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly...
BILLY CRYSTAL

He fully confessed to all these thefts and said it was because he had a crack cocaine habit. In fact...
CRYSTAL CANDY

I tried to enroll her in tutoring last year, and it was quite expensive. She had a lot of problems i...
CRYSTAL SMITH

Some of the kids right now are out there on the street now. Some of them are in the penitentiary, so...
CRYSTAL MOORE

There really is a lack of information about this phase in a woman's life,
CRYSTAL SMITH

Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.
CRYSTAL CHAPPELL

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to...
CRYSTAL WATERS

Do you know what i hate? I hate people who hides behind GOD, it doesn't matter how much u pray or fa...
CRYSTAL DEONARINE

It went down pretty quick. The metal was so weak. As they were putting it out, it crumbled.
CRYSTAL HALL

Everything was gone or ruined, ... There were pine tree limbs going through the top of the kitchen i...
CRYSTAL DAVIS

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one o...
CRYSTAL EASTMAN

The prop guys came in yelling, 'There's mercury on the set! It can get into your lungs, and it'll ki...
CRYSTAL HUNT

You see it every day on the news, ... It's not my family, but it's a lot of other families. You real...
CRYSTAL HUNT

I've broken thermometers before, and it was no big deal,
CRYSTAL HUNT

It wasn't really a big deal,
CRYSTAL HUNT

All of the male actors joked about the ladies' faces when the hunky firemen walked in.
CRYSTAL HUNT

It wasn't really a big deal. I thought it was hilarious.
CRYSTAL HUNT

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with ...
CRYSTAL EASTMAN

It's not a natural process, 'American Idol,' but it does great things for the people tha...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX

You should listen to even the smallest voice, someday it could be the one that makes a difference.
CRYSTAL MARCOS

In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It'...
BILLY CRYSTAL

My Aunt Sheila was terrifying! She would put a napkin in her mouth and say, 'You've got some...
BILLY CRYSTAL

Everything halts until they decide who the current dictator is and who they have to pay to get your ...
CRYSTAL GOMEZ

It’s not an exaggeration to say that different generations may see the same behaviors or dynamics ...
CRYSTAL KADAKIA

On Friday night, I was notified by one of my residents that a hurricane was coming. By morning, everyone was crying, asking me what's going on and what to do. Ms. Darby -- the dorm parent who I report to -- asked me to announce that the school was to be evacuated by 4 o'clock.

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