Split Quotes

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.

Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions.

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

With me and Bill... I think we started out with $15 apiece and split the other $20 between the band.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.

My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I'm very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly.

The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

And I think my daughter knows now that our life is split in two. Half of the year is spent with Mommy working and the other is spent with no work in sight.

We are taking close to $10 a CD the way we are doing it, and I think that is a fair amount to split up between five guys. Each of us makes like two bucks a record.

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

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.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

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.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

Because in a split second, it's gone.

You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.

The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.