Splintery Quotes & Sayings

There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely. — Clemence Poesy

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish. — Ralph Steadman

In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The reason that almost half of Mark's sixteen chapters describe the final period of Jesus' ministry is that it is in his suffering, death and resurrection that the revelation of God in Christ is most clearly seen. — William L. Lane

Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts. — Austin O'Malley

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. — Isaac Asimov

We should return to the docks," Miss Grey suggested. "Perhaps they will be waiting there." Sure enough, she was correct - or at least, half correct. Mr. Kent was leaning on a splintery post by the Aurora, shaking his head as we approached.

"It took you three far too long to return here," he said. "Did you not learn that universal tenet as a child? If you ever lose track of your mother, go back to the last place you shared, no other. It's not terribly complicated. — Tarun Shanker

A leader is a dealer in hope. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life. — Brad Henry

There is not going to be any pass for Palestinian leadership in fighting terror. — Condoleezza Rice

What's the meaning of life?"
"I have been programmed by Hexus to reply 'meatballs,'" it says. — Lydia Kang

Like I don't know who I am and I've lost all hope in humanity. — Lindsey Leavitt-Going Vintage

Pretending you are not in love with someone only delays the time of you getting over them. — Jasmine V

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject ... — Iris Origo

Even in rainier areas, where dust is less inexorable and submits to brooms and rags, it is generally detested, because dust is not organized and is therefore considered aesthetically bankrupt. Our light is not kind to faint diffuse spreading things. Our soft comfortable light flatters carefully organized, formally structured things like wedding cakes with their scrolls and overlapping flounces.
It takes the mortal storms of a star to transform dust into something incandescent. Our dust, shambling and subtractive as it is, would be radiant, if we were close enough to such a star, to that deep and dangerous light, and we would be ravished by the vision - emerald shreds veined in gold, diamond bursts fraught with deep-red flashes, aqua and violet and icy-green astral manifestations, splintery blinking harbor of light, dust as it can be, the quintessence of dust. — Amy Leach

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph." Papa's hands tightened on the splintery wood. "I'm an idiot."
No, Papa.
You're just a man. — Markus Zusak

A weird sequence of weather events had left a thin skin of ice around every tree and branch and twig. Each time the wind blew, a splintery groan issued from all directions at once. — Jennifer Egan

The tree feels splintery, nasty to my touch; it feels Floridian, more reptile than vegetable, more stucco than stone. I do loathe this state, their Elba. — Allan Gurganus

Anyone who loves books the way Homer does, loves libraries, too. It doesn't matter if the library has fancy red leather chairs and gold-plated shelves that reach to a vaulted ceiling, or if the library has splintery wooden benches and shelves made of old milk crates. it's the scent that sets the book lover at ease. It's better than grandma's perfume, or freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, or even toast. It's a scent derived from paper, mildew, dust, and human endeavors. — Suzanne Selfors