Splits Quotes - Page 21

• My mother says I used to breast-feed in a split.

  Dree Hemingway

  Mother, Used, Breasts

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• There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Christian, Thinking, Views

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• I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

  Tom Hardy

  Men, Elephants, Littles

  "Tom Hardy: the rake's progress". Interview With Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2010.

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• My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Country, Japan, Years

  "Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature: Lagerkvist-Pontoppidan". Book by Thomson Gale, 2007.

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• But I think people see 'Wallace and Gromit' as something akin to an elderly couple. These two know each other so well. Nothing can split them apart.

  Nick Park

  Couple, Thinking, Elderly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

  May Sarton

  Inspiring, Children, Play

  May Sarton (2014). “Kinds of Love: A Novel”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

  Ralph Steadman

  Artist, Verbs

  "Lying with the best of them" by Ralph Steadman, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

  Edgard Varese

  Ideas, Sound, Groups

  "Aspects of 20th Century Music". Book by R. Delone, May 1, 1975.

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• It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!

  Richard Lederer

  Writing, Practice, Confusing

  Richard Lederer (2012). “Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay”, p.58, Marion Street Press

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• I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

  Isaac Marion

  Book, Writing, Giving

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• Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

  Dick Morris

  Gay, Public Opinion, Unions

  "Bush's Weapon Against Dean" by Dick Morris, www.foxnews.com. November 5, 2003.

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• I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

  John Lee Hooker

  Pick Me Up, Six, Memphis

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• If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.

  Sonia Braga

  Kids, What Is Love, House

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• To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.

  Criss Jami

  Pain, Ideas, Confusion

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• There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Detachment, Legion, Colour

  Rudyard Kipling (2011). “The Seven Seas”, p.52, House of Stratus

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• Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.

  Frederick Rolfe

  Men, People, Personality

  "Hadrian the Seventh" by Frederick Rolfe, Penguin Modern Classics edition, Harmondsworth, (p. 343), 1963.

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• The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.

  Babe Ruth

  Mean, Yankees, Curves

  George Herman Ruth, Babe Ruth (1992). “Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball”, p.11, U of Nebraska Press

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• I've split my life between a few different disciplines.

  Nick Offerman

  Discipline, Different

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.

  Quentin Reynolds

  Atoms, Scientist, Splitting The Atom

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• I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Believe, Yoga, Medicine

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• If you fall in love with someone, it doesnt matter who they are. Ive had lots of girlfriends who werent in the public eye. It is hard, all the intrusion: you have a row with someone, and even though youve sorted everything out, you get the are-they-going-to-split headlines for the next ten days.

  Max Beesley

  Falling In Love, Girlfriend, Eye

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• ... every time I got disappointed I'd remember the Roseannadanna philosophy that says that you shouldn't cry over split milk 'cause if you spill some milk and instead of cleaning it up you just walk over it and start crying, they're gonna put you on lithium.

  Gilda Radner

  Philosophy, Milk, Causes

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• Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.

  Betty Smith

  Wisdom, Humility, Understanding

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• I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books ... It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body split.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Nature, Book, Thinking

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• God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religion, Sound, May

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.322, Penguin

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