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  • I love Neil Finn. I've loved everything he's done since Split Enz. -- Nik Kershaw
  • We've arrived," Leo announced. "Time to Split." Frank groaned. "Can we leave Valdez in Croatia? -- Rick Riordan
  • But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square? -- William Wordsworth
  • If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted. -- John DeChancie
  • And I try to piece the puzzle of the universe, Split an eight of shrooms just so I could see the universe ! -- Kid Cudi
  • With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split. -- Howard Thompson
  • Thomas hooked a thumb at Butters. "Check out Dr. Marcus Welby, MD, here.""I'd have gone with Doogie Howser, maybe," I said."Split the difference at McCoy?" Thomas asked?"Perfect. -- Jim Butcher
  • 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. -- Goran Ivanisevic
  • This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird stuff, and I was very open to music and letting it transform me. -- Margaret Cho
  • There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun. -- Greg Bear
  • It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane. -- Clive James
  • Because in a split second, it's gone. -- Ayrton Senna
  • Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. -- Carl Sandburg
  • Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. -- Bertolt Brecht
  • The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare. -- Elyn Saks
  • I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends. -- Minnie Driver
  • If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it. -- Stephen Sondheim
  • 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. -- Alvar Aalto
  • The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches. -- Felix Klein
  • We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells. -- Paul McCartney
  • Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed. -- Caroline Knapp
  • Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather. -- Tom Hodgkinson
  • I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America. -- Chad Kroeger
  • Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split. -- Nancy Pearcey
  • 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. -- Deepika Padukone
  • The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it'll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything. -- Ronda Rousey
  • 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. -- Seth Shostak
  • One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them. -- Carla Hall
  • 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 Riis
  • I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain. -- Pete Seeger
  • Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment. -- Jamais Cascio
  • I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. -- Jacob Riis
  • The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war. -- Walter Kirn
  • My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother. -- Al Pacino
  • I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though? -- Florence Welch
  • 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. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness. -- Chris Evans
  • America is pretty split. -- Jolene Ivey
  • Life would split apart without letters. -- Virginia Woolf
  • Light will someday split you open -- Hafez
  • Images split the truth in fractions. -- Denise Levertov
  • Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven. -- J. K. Rowling
  • The future is a split second away. -- Ana Monnar
  • Have you ever tried to split sawdust? -- Eugene McCarthy
  • Tantra acceptance is total; it doesn't split you. -- Osho
  • Music is split up now into little pockets. -- Chris Martin
  • It is freezing fit to split a stone. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
  • Belgium is a country with a split personality. -- Nicholas Royle
  • Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing. -- Twyla Tharp
  • Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC. -- Kanye West
  • A split second can ruin or boost the sequence. -- Deepika Padukone
  • I've split my life between a few different disciplines. -- Nick Offerman
  • The best way to carve is not to split. -- Laozi
  • ...to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before... -- Douglas Adams
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  • Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong. -- Charles Evers
  • The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. -- J. K. Rowling
  • For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • My mother says I used to breast-feed in a split. -- Dree Hemingway
  • I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds. -- Christophe Lemaitre
  • I still feel my generation is split on their attitudes. -- Garrett Clayton
  • You can split atoms, but you can't split true love. -- Steve Fowler
  • How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions. -- Mario Gabelli
  • Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166 -- Basil Bunting
  • Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston. -- Junot Diaz
  • The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us. -- Quentin Reynolds
  • I feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine. -- Tahereh Mafi
  • The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams. -- Ovid
  • Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you, -- Mikhail Prokhorov
  • For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again. -- Lauren Oliver
  • My life was split by two worlds, but he kept me whole. -- Richelle Mead
  • Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused.... -- Charles Osgood
  • It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite. -- Kiera Cass
  • Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players. -- Yanis Varoufakis
  • I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. -- Raymond Chandler
  • The world is split into two halves: the bacon, and the bacon eaters. -- Nick Offerman
  • Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood -- Seth Grahame-Smith
  • To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do -- Ani DiFranco
  • I love organization, so I split my clothes into two closets according to seasons. -- Kiernan Shipka
  • But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open. -- Anne Lamott
  • Charleston was where America split apart in 1861. Maybe it's where America comes together in 2015. -- Russell D. Moore
  • Take good care of yourself. Your life can be gone in a split second. -- August Alsina
  • The chance to play a character with a split personality is an actor's dream. -- Ashley Bell
  • Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. -- Carl Sandburg
  • I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy. -- Stephen Cole Kleene
  • Use Campaign link tagging labels all for specifying slight differences in content for split testing. -- Georg Cantor
  • My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother. -- Garcelle Beauvais
  • When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split. -- Raymond Chandler
  • Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions. -- Milan Kundera
  • It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart. -- Frederick Buechner
  • A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into beginner and expert subsystems. -- Jef Raskin
  • Whoever says The Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll. -- Steven Morrissey
  • Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other. -- William James
  • When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings. -- Jennifer Aniston
  • You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized. -- Monique Coleman
  • Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power. -- Rodger Kamenetz
  • My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled. -- Drew Barrymore
  • I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse. -- Kevin Costner
  • I know that people's judgments are fast, and in a split second I will ruin it. -- Kristen Stewart
  • When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split. -- Raymond Chandler
  • If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
  • Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends. -- Brandi L. Bates
  • I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't. -- Antonia Fraser
  • Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow. -- Emma Thompson
  • What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open. -- Muriel Rukeyser
  • There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl. -- Kate Pierson
  • For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart -- Pablo Picasso
  • O God, split the heavens and come down! Manifest yourself somehow. Do what only you can do. -- Jim Cymbala
  • The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive. -- Loretta Young
  • For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes. -- Robert Creeley
  • I love animals. I couldn't eat a whole one but I'll split one with you if you want. -- Greg Proops
  • Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him. -- Tim Bowler
  • Ð?he older you get, the more baggage you have, and the harder it is to just split. -- Lykke Li
  • I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded. -- Jack Paar
  • With me and Bill... I think we started out with $15 apiece and split the other $20 between the band. -- Bobby Hatfield
  • There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying. -- Dale Spender
  • It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect. -- Jacob Dalton
  • Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. -- Pearl S. Buck
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