Splits Quotations

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.

I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

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

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.

I started in junior high doing the splits and flips and that kind of stuff. It was kind of the acceptable thing to do. But I had two older brothers, so I was a tomboy. I was the cute tomboy who could put on the skirt but then go tackle you or something. I was a little rough around the edges for a pretty woman!

Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

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.

I love Neil Finn. I've loved everything he's done since Split Enz.

I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.

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.

Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts.

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

Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.

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

Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.

The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.

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

Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.

I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

Music is split up now into little pockets.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of uncertainty. And I think they ought to work a lot harder.

Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.

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

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

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!

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

And our dreams, with what frivolity we have pared them like toenails, clipped them like ends of split hair.

Images split the truth in fractions.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

it was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tied to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there.

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.

Because in a split second, it's gone.

Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused....

Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.

She had some good splits going out. I think it was a matter of endurance to bring it home.

I'm a really good gymnast. I can do splits and back handsprings. I'm always asked to do it on a talk show. And every time I go they say will you do it. I say yeah, but I'm always wearing high heels or a short dress. And I keep saying one time I'm going to go on and wear jeans and sneakers so I can do back flips.

We've got to win at home. If you can take care of your home court and get some splits on the road, you'll be in good shape. But you have to protect your home floor.

There are a lot of splits in households over the heritage and the loss of it. Cubans here are different. Some leave out parts of their heritage.

Other than the fact that they closed the splits down, which kept us from slanting and getting into the lanes, they didn't do anything that was unexpected. On film, they didn't seem to have any side that was favored. They just found that they could do it (run left) in this game. The kids gave everything they had in the game and we just came up short.

It felt really good. I was kind of hurting the last 100, but my splits stayed even the whole entire way. I was definitely happy with the way I split it and the way I swam it. And I was also happy with my time. It was my best time.

I thought he was strong. He came out throwing a good fastball to both sides of the plate. His curves and changes, he kept them down. He threw a couple splits to get a feeling for it. He looks solid. (His fastball) is probably nowhere near where it is when he's full strength, but he was getting it in there pretty hot.

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.

We had a problem in stopping them. They only punted one time. It was tough on us. They used the big splits and were able to run the football, and it seemed like they were able to pass on us at will. They have a good football team with a nice offensive line. They have an outstanding quarterback and have some good receivers. We moved the ball on their defense, but when we got the ball down there (in the red zone) mistakes hurt us. We had interceptions and penalties. Those are the things that happen in the first game. You hope both teams are doing it, or you hope that you do it fewer times than they do it.

To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.

If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call.

There's moments when you have to make a split-second decision that will form you for the rest of your life.

As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.

Every time somebody uses it, it splits that bandwidth just a little bit.

We just tried to make other guys beat us. We tried to take away a lot of his penetration and his splits on the pick and roll. I think we picked it up a lot.

We will never tolerate any splits or divisions in society,

Billy Luttrell is a senior who splits time ? we have a deep roster. It's nice to see him come through in a big game.

Courtney ran a good race tonight, but was a little off pace. I am still looking for some faster early splits to get her total time down, but that will come as the season progresses.

It was all done at the same time. We sort of arranged the whole thing and cut it in half. A good example is an artist who does two canvases. He paints an abstract painting and then splits them. He shows the public the first piece and has them get used to that first piece. Then he gets the second piece and lets them get used to it, and then he puts them together and lets them see how they make sense together. So they make sense separately, but they also make sense together.

affirmation that there can be no more splits in Europe.

Despite their personal preferences which still splits even, the public is telling us let's get on with it. And if the Supreme Court says otherwise even if its against my own position, I'm willing to live with it.

The big reason is because being independently owned and operated gives us a lot more flexibility, from everything to fee splits to equity opportunities in the firm for our brokers.

This is an unusually open race. If Munich splits voters for not being political enough, it's anyone's race.

It was so hot, I just whipped off my hat and gave it to one of the American coaches who is giving splits out on the course.

For every dollar we raise, Scholastic matches it with one dollar. Then Scholastic takes their dollar and splits it between three charities.

It splits his base, and it will be endless trouble for him if it goes forward, and I'm sure he won't let it happen.

Doing two or more things at the same time splits our consciousness in two or more ways.

Stock splits have become relatively scarce in this environment, ... The reason a stock is splitting is because it's a company that's been doing well.

It was not the competition from Wal-Mart -- every new competitor splits the pie another time.

I hung four splits in the first two innings, and every one of them ended up with green paint on it,

I made sure I was always in the splits when they happened but when I was in them I wasn't doing too much work because I was pretty sure it would come to a sprint finish and was confident if that was the case I had a good chance.

I had to take my chances and try for a couple steals, but Megan, once she splits that, is gone.

It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.