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Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits. -- Frank Perdue
You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it. -- Bum Phillips
When you chop wood, splinters fly -- Joseph Stalin
You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight) -- Stephenie Meyer
Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly. -- Edward Young
You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters. -- C. S. Lewis
This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on. -- Augusten Burroughs
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. -- Anthony Bourdain
We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity. -- Peter De Vries
Sufferings, adversities, humiliations, failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for You, O Jesus. -- Mary Faustina Kowalska
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
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot. -- Ann Brashares
He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor. -- Stephen King
We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart. -- Philip K. Dick
A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and she took him for her own. The other was his best friend. And she went after him in ill-considered shoes, brave and completely unprepared. -- Anne Ursu
I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul. -- Henry Miller
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. And I must do so with both ardor and cool appraisal, with the passions of eye and heart, but in that ardent heart there must also be a splinter of ice. -- Sally Mann
I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take. -- Allison Winn Scotch
[Into the Badlands] wasn't going to be two days of a splinter unit at the end of the shoot. The action and the martial arts had to be integral to the show. That's what makes it unique, that's what makes it special and different and ground-breaking. No one has attempted this before on American television. -- Miles Millar
Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn't mean they don't leave scars that itch. -- Lauren Beukes
I don't like shoes. I get a lot of splinters, though. -- Morgan Saylor
Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece. -- Siobhan Davies
The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery. -- William Falconer
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
I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town. -- Rita Mae Brown
Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way. -- Mark Nepo
Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale. -- Langston Hughes
I still have wagon splinters stuck to my ass, from when my high school coach made me ride the bench. -- Jarod Kintz
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel. -- Clarice Lispector
I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside. -- Vanora Bennett
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
By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters. -- Rebecca Makkai
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

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