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“I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of living reality. It is better to look, look again, and keep on looking.”

Looks Littles Reality Process Bears Photography Photograph Splits Continuing Frozen Sincerely Copying Pitfalls Living Reality

Author:Keith Shackleton

“I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.”

Thinking Knows Should Littles Two Book Bits Interesting Goes On Little Bit Pages Splits

Author:Chris Abani

“Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World.”

World Years Humans Littles Has Beens School Courses Realizing Brain Impossible Modern Lows Adults Corruption Plot Maps Rebellion Splits Tribes Modern World School System Savanna

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.”

People Men Should Half Four Personality Splits Abnormal Single Person

Author:Frederick Rolfe

“The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.”

Source: Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball

“Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.”

Ifs Artist Worst Elements Stones Abandoned Splits Explosions Firing Debris

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“I've split my life between a few different disciplines.”

Different Discipline Splits

Author:Nick Offerman

“The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.”

Scientist Atoms Splits Splitting Splitting The Atom

Author:Quentin Reynolds

“I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.”

Believe I Believe Yoga Medicine I Believe In Splits Bananas Holistic Pilates Sundaes Banana Splits

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“If you fall in love with someone, it doesnt matter who they are. Ive had lots of girlfriends who werent in the public eye. It is hard, all the intrusion: you have a row with someone, and even though youve sorted everything out, you get the are-they-going-to-split headlines for the next ten days.”

Ifs Matter Hard Eye Fall Next Ten Falling In Love Girlfriend Splits Headlines Public Eye Intrusion

Author:Max Beesley

“... every time I got disappointed I'd remember the Roseannadanna philosophy that says that you shouldn't cry over split milk 'cause if you spill some milk and instead of cleaning it up you just walk over it and start crying, they're gonna put you on lithium.”

Ifs Philosophy Remember Causes Walks Cry Over It Disappointed Milk Splits Cleaning Spills Lithium

Author:Gilda Radner

“Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.”

Knows Kind Persons Moments Wisdom Understanding Seeing Humility Poet Breaths Cosmic Splits Trembling Stride Disillusionment

Author:Betty Smith

“I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books ... It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body split.”

Thinking Knows Way Mind Humans May I Can Book Body Nature Imagine Accidents Disappear Splits Human Experience Mind Body Nature Love

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.”

May Might Religion Sound Theology Being True Splits

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.”

“We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way a shadow glides across a face, but in that split second, when you realize something truly remarkable is happening and disappearing right in front of you, if you can pass a camera before your eye, you'll tear a piece of time out of the whole, and in a breath, rescue it and give it new meaning.”

Ifs Way Giving Looks Whole Moments Eye Faces Realizing Pieces Fronts Tears Happenings Shadow Breaths Cameras Photographer Disappear Remarkable Splits Rescue

Author:Joel Meyerowitz

“My parents were very young when they had me. They were still growing up and learning themselves. They did the best they could, but my mom and dad split up when I was little... So that kind of made me stronger.”

Kind Littles Made Stills Young Parent Growing Up Growing Mom Dad Stronger My Mom Splits Mom And Dad

Author:Justin Bieber

“An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.”

Ifs Source Stones Streams Dry Splits Steel Pipe Thirsty Drinkers

Book:The Novels of Elinor Wylie

Source: The Novels of Elinor Wylie

“The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.”

Mind Nightmare Waking Splits Shattered Schizophrenia Schizophrenic

Author:Elyn Saks

“Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.”

Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader

“I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?”

Knows Want Should Stills Two Country Turns Wish Like You Creatures Unhappy Splits Should I Pathetic Here And There Not Happy Homesick Two Countries Beirut

Book:Beirut Blues

Source: Beirut Blues

“Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.”

“Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking.”

People World Giving Children Stills Two Bigs Order Taken Position Baby Walking Adults Inevitable Awkward Splits Crawling Lurking Adult Children

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.”

Thinking Way Order Various Splits Multitudes Think Of You

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.”

War Real Today Dying Splits Buttons

Author:Dale Spender

“I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. I won't be a party to a conspiracy that splits Islam into two - Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam - mobilizing Sunni Islam against Shiite Islam.”

Two Force Party Benefits Islam Conspiracy Splits Colonialism

Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi

“I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.”

Way Mean Would Be Able Acting Focus Painting Pressure Paint Painter Grades Splits Reluctant Sixth Grade

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“The world is split into two kinds of people, those who would go out for a drink with John Lennon, and those who`'d choose Paul McCartney... After The Beatles came back from India, Lennon wrote "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" and McCartney wrote "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da." End of argument.”

People World Kind Two Ends Drink Gun Argument India Warm Splits Lennon

Author:Paul Bettany

“You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.”

“I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.”

Thinking World Believe I Believe Groups Danger Becoming Members Species Communicate Splits

Author:Bill Vaughan

“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.”

Order Can Do Genius Eternal Highest Singing Guitar Brown Splits

Author:Bill Nighy

“My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.”

Parent Minutes Splits Things Change Youngsters One Minute Happy Family

Author:Vinnie Jones

“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.”

Country Bigs House Amount Exercise Rain Fairs Crosses Woods Hills Heat Splits Washing Steep Stitches Rakes

Author:Pete Seeger

“As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic listening, and creating an ambiance in which people work with zest and spirit will help reconcile the split between the ideals of being efficient and being humane. This integration of female values is already producing a more collaborative kind of leadership, and changing the very ideal of what strong leadership actually is.”

Source: The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership

“I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.”

Feels Kind Sometimes Bits Personality Manage Splits Schizophrenic Split Personality

Author:Emma Watson

“There's moments when you have to make a split-second decision that will form you for the rest of your life.”

Moments Form Decision Splits Rest Of Your Life

Author:Dash Mihok

“I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.”

Born West Raised East My Time Los Angeles Splits Coast West Coast Born And Raised

Author:Tessa Thompson

“It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.”

People Ifs Knows Want Important Ends Earth Natural Talking Music Records Groups Rocks Music Is Disaster Splits Reminiscing Keep Talking Old Records

Author:John Lennon

“Socrates splits himself into two, so that there are two Socrates: the Socrates who knows in advance how the discussion is going to end, and the Socrates who travels the entire dialectical path along with his interlocutor.”

Knows Two Ends Path Discussion Splits

Author:Pierre Hadot

“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.”

Mind Two Play Form Audience Stage Splits Playwright Schizophrenia Protagonists Antagonist Uber Stage Play Two Minds

Author:David Mamet

“I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.”

Thinking Law Culture Force Isolated Splits Nineteen Jewish Culture Jewish Law

Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.”

Five Childhood Dad Splits Mum Mum And Dad

Author:Mark Ronson

“Suddenly the intermedia shows are all over town..Theirs remains the most dramatic expression of the contemporary generation. The place where its needs and desperations are most dramatically split open. At the Plastic Inevitable it is All Here and Now and the Future.”

Needs Shows Generations Expression Towns Remains Contemporary Inevitable Dramatic Plastic Splits Desperation Here And Now Now And The Future

Author:Jonas Mekas

“The Palestinian society is split into two - those who are openly calling for Israel's destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel's destruction but refuse to confront those who do. And that's the Palestinian authority. I think they're timid, they're afraid to actually stand up to these killers. And I think that they're afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don't take that necessary plunge.”

Two Sometimes Political Calling Destruction Safety Sake Refuse Israel Killers Splits Palestinian Plunge Hamas

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“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.”

Way Littles Hands Bigs Able Left Fingers Operations Splits Twisted Left Hand

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.”

Thinking Book Home Rooms Half Broken Personality Splits Fabric Pillow Ceilings Other Half Vintage Antiques Neon Shutters Bali Split Personality Jugs Turquoise Ceramics Aztec

Author:Poppy Delevingne

“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.”

World Mind Facts Feelings Spirit Values Modern Morality Treats Realms Splits Secular Subjective Dualism

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.”

Two Kissing Splits Kiss Me Before And After

Author:Candace Bushnell

“I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.”

Fingers Throwing Splits Pitcher Fastballs Curveballs

Author:Phil Niekro

“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.”

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