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I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways. -- Kylie Minogue
I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits. -- Kristin Kreuk
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme. -- Stephane Mallarme
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. -- David Foster Wallace
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual. -- Christian Lous Lange
We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation. -- Raul Grijalva
I like to do the splits onstage -- Gavin DeGraw
Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you, -- Mikhail Prokhorov
When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split. -- Raymond Chandler
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. -- Pearl S. Buck
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. -- Robert E. Howard
I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits -- Ritchie Blackmore
We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass. -- Hal Higdon
The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels. -- Beth Moore
October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace! -- Rainbow Rowell
Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead, real painting can be looked at over and over again and each time it has something new. -- Igor Babailov
If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second. -- Eleanor Clark
You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past. -- Eyedea
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise-even in their own field. -- Isaac Asimov
Banana Splits for Breakfast. I think I ate about five. -- Sissy Spacek
Splits just keep us where we are and we can't do that where we are. We don't wanna stay there. We wanna move. I'm sure Indiana is saying the same thing. ... Every team in the Big Ten is going to say the same thing. That's the reality of it. -- Robbie Wine
I like to do the splits onstage. -- Gavin DeGraw
Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages. -- Jo Brand
I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits. -- Chris Isaak
A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits. -- Ritchie Blackmore
The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%. -- Bill Gates
So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.' -- Tim Vine
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. -- Arlen Specter
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. -- Roy Jenkins
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. -- Patricia Sun
Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything. -- Gavyn Davies
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar. -- Bill Nighy
A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience. -- David Mamet
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. -- Eddie Van Halen
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. -- Fiona Apple
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! -- Vivica A. Fox
Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks. -- William Carlos Williams
People feel the need to choose sides when a relationship splits - it's human nature. -- Tammara Webber
The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election. -- Will Rogers
The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible. -- Alice Cary
He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after. -- Candace Bushnell
A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane. -- Mitch Albom
Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive. -- Moïra Fowley-Doyle
We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football. -- Gerard Houllier
Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody. -- Richard Rohr
Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. -- Jeanette Winterson
A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits. -- Jean-Claude Van Damme
This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish. -- Richard Siken
Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family. -- May Sarton
When the young womanleans over the sky,about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,her white front splits openuntil her milk runs. -- Gunter Grass
Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man is in one piece until love finds its way to his heart it splits him in half vital to have both halves, yet excruciating to keep them glued together -- A.M.M Alusi
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered -- Roy Jenkins
James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360. -- Ted Nugent

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