Splinters Quotes

58 quotes by 54 authors

Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge… — Paula Rego
Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart. — Matthew Sharpe
Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to… — Saul Bellow
I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town. — Rita Mae Brown
My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go… — Christian Louboutin
You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it. — Bum Phillips
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. — Anthony Bourdain
I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must… — Henry Miller
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers… — Ann Brashares
Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that JosÃ© Arcadio BuendÃa was not… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the… — Augusten Burroughs
Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale. — Langston Hughes
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and… — Melina Marchetta
By the time I finish with the two of you, you will be begging me to let you die. (Desiderius) Desi dearest, I have never… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And… — Langston Hughes
I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to… — Jodi Picoult
Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way. — Mark Nepo
and if we can change things that have already happened if those planes can fly in uneasy formation if that splinter moon can blow away… — Jaclyn Moriarty
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of… — George Orwell

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