Splits Quotes - Page 15

Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained - secret - into the body of the light!

William Carlos Williams

Light, Ideas, House

William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.263, New Directions Publishing

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In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup. If there is action elsewhere on the stage, the comic line can be lost.

James Carver

Focus, Theatre, Actors

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In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream?

Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

Dream, Moon, Age

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Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up.

Michael Schenker

Fighting, Band, Fighter

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Light will someday split you open

Hafez

Inspirational, Light, Someday

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At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.

John Cheever

Ignorance, Light, Two

"The Journals of John Cheever" by Robert Gottlieb, 1966.

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Danger is when you are split three ways: Your soul goes one way, your mind goes another way and your body goes yet another way.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Inspirational, Bhajans, Soul

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It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

Clive James

Sports, Men, Thinking

"Falling Towards England". Book by Clive James, 1985.

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In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.

Silvan Shalom

Kings, Law, Territory

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Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

Deepika Padukone

Able, Comedy, Timing

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

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Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.

Lin Biao

Defeated, Imperialism, Colossus

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With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What makes this book as important as anything published in the last decade is the irresistible music, the formal dexterity and the imaginative leaps she makes with metaphor and language in these simply stunning poems. This is a very, very important achievement.

Kwame Dawes

Book, Writing, America

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I want that love that moved the mountains.
I want that love that split the ocean.
I want that love that made the winds tremble.
I want that love that roared like thunder.
I want that love that will raise the dead.
I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy.
I want that love that is the silence of eternity.

Rumi

Ocean, Wind, Silence

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Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-absorption without self-awareness.

Leslie Jamison

Sarcastic, Hurt, Clever

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Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Soul, Tears

'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm tear up at the root and topple like a crown, The pine crack at the base - we had to watch them all. The ash, the lovely cedar. We had to watch them fall. They went so softly under the loud flails of air, Before that fury they went down like feathers, With all the hundred springs that flowered in their hair, and all the years, endured in all the weathers - To fall as if they were nothing, as if they were feathers.

May Sarton

Strong, Spring, Fall

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But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

William Wordsworth

Squares, Intellect, Provinces

William Wordsworth (1970). “The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

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Evan stopped completely. He was staring at her with those intense eyes. Staring right into her. Just like he had in those couple of moments when she had thought for a split second, that he wanted to kiss her.

Kate Brian

Couple, Eye, Kissing

Kate Brian (2008). “Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven.

J. K. Rowling

Seven, Mad Eye Moody, Knows

J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.51, Pottermore

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He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm full on gawking wondering what it would be like to be cool and casual and fearless and passionate and so freaking alive just like he is- and for a split second I want to play with him. I want to disturb the birds. Later as he plays and plays as all the fog burns away I think he's right. That's exactly it- I am crazy sad and somewhere deep inside all I want is to fly.

Jandy Nelson

Crazy, Thinking, Fog

Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.54, Penguin

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Sometimes I feel as though there are two me's, one coasting directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when she's supposed to nod and says what she's supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and dreams... Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly notice the split, but sometimes it feels as though I'm two whole different people and I could rip apart at any second.

Lauren Oliver

Dream, Rip, Moving

Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.30, Harper Collins

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Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.

Milan Kundera

Giving, Unity, Splinters

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For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.

Alexandra Potter

Fleeting, Crowds, Stranger

Alexandra Potter (2004). “Calling Romeo”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Garland

Running, Beach, Believe

"The Beach". www.imdb.com. February 2, 2010.

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A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I’d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.

Jonathan Stroud

Thinking, Giving, Mind

Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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