Splinters quotes
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Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.
-- Bum Phillips -
Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.
-- Dennis Miller -
Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.
-- Frank Perdue -
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There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of a lancet for you will only drive it deeper. Rough speech and harsh gestures are the stick, while even-tempered instruction and patient reprimand are the lancet. 'Reprove, rebuke, exhort,' says the Apostle (II Tim. 4:2), not 'batter'.
-- John Climacus -
I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.
-- Louise Fitzhugh -
Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.
-- Mark Nepo -
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Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.
-- Matthew Sharpe -
If you want to write, find your splinter. Find the thing that pierces you and won't let you go.
-- Megan McDonald -
How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.
-- Paul Celan -
Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.
-- Siobhan Davies -
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The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.
-- Theodor Adorno
