Splits Quotes - Page 17

• I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Philosophy, Mathematics, Princeton

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• First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for preserves. The next morning, birds rustled the fruit trees, and later when I twisted a ripe fig loose from its stem, I found it half eaten, the other side already rotting, or-like another I plucked and split open-being taken from the inside: a swarm of insects hollowing it. I'm too late, again, another space emptied by loss. Tomorrow, the bowl I have yet to fill.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Morning, Taken, Loss

  Natasha Trethewey (2007). “Native Guard”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

  Bill Bryson

  Coffee, Air, Able

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• With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.

  Howard Thompson

  Art, Vegas, Ice Cream

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• Banana Splits for Breakfast. I think I ate about five.

  Sissy Spacek

  Thinking, Ice Cream, Breakfast

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• Over the course of the years, I've learned [that] fashion is a fascinating business about selling magic. It is done on the backs of our optimism and our insecurity. It is as much psychology as commerce. But I've also learned that every day we make split second decisions about people based on their attire and those decisions can have powerful implications - see the story of Trayvon Martin and his hoodie. It's important for us to understand how fashion works and how we connect to it.

  Robin Givhan

  Fashion, Powerful, Inspiration

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• You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth—and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Jet Engines, Hands

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• Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was split. Every time you write a date, you’re using the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as the focal point.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Writing, Years

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• I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

  Antonia Fraser

  War, Thinking, People

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• Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

  Annie Baker

  Light, Darkness, Shadow

  Annie Baker (2014). “The Flick”, p.140, Theatre Communications Group

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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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• It's the moment when you know that you can have what you want if you're only brave enough to say so. It's a split second when everything can change, but you pussy out because you're too afraid to risk the rejection.

  Penelope Douglas

  Rejection, Brave, Risk

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• Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap, - You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat.... Look! look! that livid flash! And instantly follows the rattling thunder, As if some cloud-crag, split asunder, Fell, splintering with a ruinous crash, On the Earth, which crouches in silence under; And now a solid gray wall of rain Shuts off the landscape, mile by mile.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wall, Rain, Heart

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• The police become necessary in human society
  Only at that junction in human society
  Where it is split between those who have and those who ain’t got

  Omali Yeshitela

  Police, Junction, Humans

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• Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Hair, Friendly, Together

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• The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

  David Allen

  Take Control, Hardest, Productive

  Twitter post from May 30, 2009

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• I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

  Susan Griffin

  Different, Earth, Abandonment

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• My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

  Robert Ballard

  Virginia, Half, England

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

  Abbie Cornish

  Children, Thinking, Dysfunction

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Over the last decade, - economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.

  Gavyn Davies

  Years, Two, Events

  "The great economics rift reopens" by Gavyn Davies, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Feet, Squares, Cedars

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• I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.

  Len Goodman

  Home, Broken, Parent

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• It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

  Naima Adedapo

  Believe, Able, Cartwheels

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• Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn't have kids - but divorce is hard.

  Connie Britton

  Husband, Kids, Divorce

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

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• My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Mother, Father, Parent

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