Splits Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC.

  Kanye West

  Girl, Kfc, Dating

  Song: Touch the Sky

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

  Dree Hemingway

  Mother, Used, Breasts

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

  Sissy Spacek

  Thinking, Ice Cream, Breakfast

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• Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

  Toni Morrison

  Spring, Eye, Pits

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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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• Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it showed with every syllable. Gamache knew it was impossible to split language from culture. That without one the other withered. To love the language was to respect the culture.

  Louise Penny

  Love, Voice, Perfect

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.514, Macmillan

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• Our houses are at least 12 feet under water. All you can see on TV are rooftops. And the bridge we came across, the I-10 twin span, is now split.

  George Clarke

  Bridges, Feet, Water

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• 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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