Partible Quotes & Sayings

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it. — Bill Watterson

Everybody does what she needs. And if you want plastic surgery, and then you feel better, why not? There is no law. I've nothing against using something to help your beauty - but do it in a good way, with intelligence. — Monica Bellucci

There's people in hell who want ice water. — Nelson Algren

Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary. — Stephen Daldry

The wars not over, but this battle is. It's time to pick up the pieces and move forward. — Christine Warren

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible. — Franz Kafka

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton. — Sam Donaldson

My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast. — William Shakespeare

The world was in truth made of jackstraws. The world was very combustible, the human body was partible in ways heretofore unimagined. What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. Civilization was not in the natural order but was some wort of willed invention held taut like a fabric or a sail against the chaos of the winds. And why we had invented it, or how we knew to invent it, was beyond him.
Newmann had seen some truth that was completely out of his power to put into words. But he had come away knowing that even though the world of civilization was made of straw and lantern slides, he must live in it as if it were solid. Even when the heat of the lantern itself burnt away the illusions and a black hole appeared in the middle of the slide. — Paulette Jiles