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Splits Quotes (page 6)

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour. Anthony Storr
I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack I looked in and saw the trick inside it, the filthy nothing, the fooled and rotten faces of rich and successful men. Robinson Jeffers
What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered. Peter Straub
Speak you too, speak as the last, say out your say. Speak- But don’t split off No from Yes. Give your say this meaning too: Give it the shadow. Give it shadow enough, Give it as much As you know is spread round you from Midnight to midday and midnight. Look around: See how things all come alive- By death! Alive! Speaks true who speaks shadow. But now the place shrinks, where you stand: Where now, shadow-stripped, where? Climb. Grope upwards. Thinner you grow, less knowable, finer! Finer:... Paul Celan
Natalie Goldberg quote: "Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been..."
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. Natalie Goldberg
Meg Cabot quote: "If you’re gonna have your head split open, it might as well be..."
If you’re gonna have your head split open, it might as well be while you’re riding a wave, dude. Meg Cabot
Someone had cleared that hillside once to make an orchard that had fallen into ruin and was now only twisted silver branches and split trunks. I sat there and continued to watch the sky as, out of nowhere, great solid-looking clouds built hot stacks and cotton cones. I was sixteen years old. Louise Erdrich
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where..."
Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. Jeanette Winterson
Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else. Jodi Picoult
It was an archaic expression of friendship by an undisciplined man in an age when most men seemed in mortal fear of being mistaken for pansies for even a split second. Kurt Vonnegut
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware Paul Tillich
Major-General Sir Wilfred Bosher came to distribute the prizes at that school', proceeded Gussie in a dull, toneless voice.'He dropped a book. He stooped to pick it up. And, as he stooped, his trousers split up the back'.'How we roared! P. G. Wodehouse
Stephen King quote: "Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and..."
Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split. Stephen King
And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea. They lying long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks when sinews give way, Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; Faith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicorn evils run them through; Split all ends up they shan't crack; And death shall have no dominion. Dylan Thomas
We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle. "Has a European feel" Susan said."That sounds terrific" I said. "Can I have one?"Susan grinned at me. "How did you ever get to be so big without growing up?" she said."Iron self-control" I said. Robert B. Parker

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