Splits Quotes - Page 20

• Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

  Steven Pinker

  Latin, Writing, Editing

  Steven Pinker (1994). “The Language Instinct”, William Morrow & Company

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• When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.

  Paul Gallico

  Family, Two, People

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• KGB was inseparable part of the Soviet Union and the whole structure of the Soviet society. We believe that the achievements of the Soviet Union and of the Soviet society, it's main achievements until the split in 1991, it was at the same time the main achievements of the KGB, because it was working for the same cause.

  Vladimir Semichastny

  Believe, Kgb, Achievement

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• My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Mother, Towns, Made

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• We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

  Robert B. Parker

  Growing Up, Self, Iron

  "Promised land". Book by Robert B. Parker, www.theguardian.com. 1976.

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• I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is the quality of the split-second decisions you made.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Thinking, Differences

  "Gchatting with George Saunders". Interview with Katherine Bernard, www.theparisreview.org. December 23, 2013.

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• Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

  Virginia Woolf

  Perfect, Dancer, Brave

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• All warfare is based on deception. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight and if not: split and re-evaluate.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Deception, Enemy

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• On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping.

  Sylvia Plath

  Land, Nurse, Broken

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.94, Anchor

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• Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.

  Janet Morris

  Love, God, Men

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.358, Paradise Publishing

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• Piper leaned toward [Jason], her caramel braid falling over her shoulder. Her multicolored eyes made it hard for him to think straight. “And where is this place?” she asked. “A . . . uh, a town called Split.” “Split.” She smelled really good—like blooming honeysuckle. “Um, yeah.” Jason wondered if Piper was working some sort of Aphrodite magic on him—like maybe every time he mentioned Reyna’s name, she would befuddle him so much he couldn’t think about anything but Piper. He supposed it wasn’t the worst sort of revenge.

  Rick Riordan

  Revenge, Fall, Eye

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• As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Reflection, Mirrors, Identity

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.17, Penguin

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• The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there, most banked at home, some of it coined out for a flutter. But love cleaves through the mind's mathematics. Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. How will you heal your heart when love has split it in two?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Heart, Two

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• I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with other people and their speech, friends I believed I was devoted to, people whose lives I can simply guess at now, that it gives me the impression I am simply a collection of them, that they all existed for themselves, but had inadvertently formed me, then vanished. But, what: Should I have been expected to create my own self, out of nothing, out of thin, thin air and alone?

  Lorrie Moore

  Heart, Thinking, Air

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• So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Stars, Lying

  Charles Dickens (2015). “A Tale of Two Cities: World Classics”, p.186, World Classic

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• [Rhage and Manny] “You’re doing great,” he murmured as he noticed those white knuckled fists. “Don’t worry about me.” “Right, right…your brothers.” Manny paused for a split second. “You’re all right, you know that.” “F*ck…that…” The fighter smiled, flashing fangs. “I’m…perfect.

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, White, Perfect

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• Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.

  Perry Moore

  Giving, Decision, Way

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• You like the girl," Alasdair offered. Nassar leveled a heavy gaze at him. "Lillian said you tried to be funny in the car. I told her it couldn't possibly be true. The moment you try to make a joke, the sky shall split and the Four Horsemen will ride out, heralding Apocalypse.

  Ilona Andrews

  Girl, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Sky

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• How is the birdhouse coming along, Charlie Brown?" "Well, I'm a lousy carpenter, I can't nail straight, I can't saw straight and I always split the wood... I'm nervous, I lack confidence, I'm stupid, I have poor taste and absolutely no sense of design... So, all things considered, it's coming along okay!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Stupid, Design, Nails

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• The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death Eaters, People, Inspirational Harry Potter

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• Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.

  Tim Bowler

  Grieving, Doe, Lifetime

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• Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Ties, People, Parent

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.26, Penguin

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• It was one of those idiotic things that could've been resolved in a split second. Tara had no right to touch Raphael, and once she did he had every right to punch her. She should've left it at that, and now she was dead because she didn't.

  Ilona Andrews

  Should, Raphael, Idiotic

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.50, Penguin

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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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• The dedication of this book is split seven ways: to Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and to you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Dedication, Way

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “ハリー・ポッターと死の秘宝 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.3, Pottermore

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