Splits Quotes
475 quotes by 406 authors
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Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is…
— Desmond Tutu
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So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't…
— Tim Vine
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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
— David Foster Wallace
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I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the…
— Florence Welch
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We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler…
— Zakk Wylde
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The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
— Loretta Young
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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
— Natalie Goldberg
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Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits…
— Toni Morrison
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We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle. "Has a European feel" Susan said. "That sounds terrific" I…
— Robert B. Parker
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Don’t ever leave me again,†I said in a tiny voice. I won’t,†he promised into my hair, sounding most un-Fang-like. “I won’t. Not ever. 
— James Patterson
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He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking…
— Milan Kundera
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The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when…
— Mark Twain
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Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of…
— Anthony Storr
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Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of…
— C.S. Lewis
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There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision.…
— Larry Niven
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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
— Muriel Rukeyser
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I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make…
— Emily Dickinson
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The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Who Wrote These Splits Quotes
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