Quotes by Splinters Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below. Ambrose Bierce splinters tree hands I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter. Anne Sexton hoarding splinters sculpture This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on. Augusten Burroughs splinters grain happens You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it. Bum Phillips splinters ladders nfl You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters. C. S. Lewis splinters universe grain My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life. Christian Louboutin splinters views father I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under sufficient pressure - some of it's very skillful, but I don't think there's anywhere a discernible major poet in the process of emerging; or if he is, I ain't seen him. Conrad Aiken splinters littles thinking Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group. Dennis Miller splinters entering groups Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly. Edward Young splinters satire fame Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits. Frank Perdue splinters baseball dream Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room. Gabriel Garcia Marquez splinters crazy monday We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. George Orwell splinters true-life life-is There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest. Hans Christian Andersen splinters giants tree You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of a lancet for you will only drive it deeper. Rough speech and harsh gestures are the stick, while even-tempered instruction and patient reprimand are the lancet. 'Reprove, rebuke, exhort,' says the Apostle (II Tim. 4:2), not 'batter'. John Climacus splinters christian wish I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds. John F. Kennedy splinters pieces wind When you chop wood, splinters fly Joseph Stalin splinters woods Life for me ain't been no crystal stair Langston Hughes splinters stairs crystals I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach. Louise Fitzhugh splinters holes littles If Donald Trump is our nominee, it could be the end of the Republican Party. It will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover. And the Democrats will be joyful about it. It's not going to happen. Marco Rubio splinters splits party Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio splinters shaving black 12»