Splintered Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of…
— Alvar Aalto
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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats,…
— David Cronenberg
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Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one…
— August Wilson
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Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
— Nicholas Negroponte
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We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown…
— John Connolly
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When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a…
— Margaret Atwood
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Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my…
— Annie Dillard
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Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to…
— Mervyn Peake
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Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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This isn't over," I said. "After everything we've been through, you don't get the right to brush me off. I'm not letting you off that…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt into one another,…
— Lauren Oliver
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Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets…
— Terry Pratchett
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Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road…
— Jodi Picoult
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He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in what might have…
— George R. R. Martin
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Love is a many splintered thing.
— James Thurber
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Because our hearts are unprepared for truth, we cling to the deception as a shipwreck victim on a storm-tossed sea will grab at anything that…
— Penelope J Stokes
Who Wrote These Splintered Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Splintered Quotes as follows: