#split

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #gone

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

#after #believing #exhaustion #just #push

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

— Pierce Brosnan

#her #made #me #mother #older

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#great #halfway #mistake #moment #perhaps

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#god #i #split #stay #will

Have you ever tried to split sawdust? ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#split #tried #you

I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#constituents #democratic #going #harder #hispanic

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

— Chris Isaak

#blow #fireworks #i #i love #love

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#between #i #interests #mathematics #philosophy

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#good #never #special #splits #up