Splinters Quotes

• 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 search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

  Henry Miller

  Book, Believe, Soul

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grain, Universe

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• Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

  Siobhan Davies

  Ideas, Pieces, Week

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• The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

  Theodor Adorno

  Eye, Glasses, Magnifying

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.64, Univ of California Press

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• You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

  Bum Phillips

  Nfl, Ladders, Slides

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

  Frank Perdue

  Baseball, Dream

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• 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 again in our political history.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Party, Law, Political

  Letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 08, 1954.

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• I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wind, Pieces, Cia

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• It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin condensed in a glass bowl. ... When the bowl was heated over a spirit lamp, an extremely violent explosion occurred, which shattered it into small fragments. On another occasion a drop was heated in a test-tube, and exploded with such violence that the glass splinters cut deep into my face and hands, and hurt other people who were standing some distance off in the room.

  Ascanio Sobrero

  Hurt, Distance, Cutting

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• Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

  Langston Hughes

  Crystals, Stairs

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.60, University of Missouri Press

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• We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

  George Orwell

  True Life, Life Is, Thought Police

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1280, Penguin UK

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• A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and she took him for her own. The other was his best friend. And she went after him in ill-considered shoes, brave and completely unprepared.

  Anne Ursu

  Heart, Eye, Boys

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• 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 bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

  George Orwell

  Dust, Knowing, True Life

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1280, Penguin UK

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• To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. And I must do so with both ardor and cool appraisal, with the passions of eye and heart, but in that ardent heart there must also be a splinter of ice.

  Sally Mann

  Passion, Heart, Eye

  Sally Mann (2015). “Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• If you want to write, find your splinter. Find the thing that pierces you and won't let you go.

  Megan McDonald

  Writing, Want, Letting You Go

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• 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 again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stupid, Party, Believe

  Letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 08, 1954.

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• 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 begged a day in my life, and the sun will surely splinter before I ever plead for anything from the likes of you. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Two, Likes, Sun

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.34, St. Martin's Griffin

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• 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 the shadows then anything, anything at all.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Blow, Moon, Shadow

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “Dreaming of Amelia”, p.578, Pan Macmillan

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• 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 against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.

  Christian Louboutin

  Father, Views, Woods

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• 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 places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

  Langston Hughes

  Fall, Son, Dark

  Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.81, University of Missouri Press

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• 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 the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Heart, Dark

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.

  Mark Nepo

  Cutting, Glimpse, Way

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.16, Conari Press

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• We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

  Peter De Vries

  Riding, Pieces, Sticks

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• Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hands, Tree, Cannons

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “Civil War Stories”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Tree, Giants, Proud

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.35, Wordsworth Editions

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