Quotes About Doing The Splits

#1. I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits.

Ritchie Blackmore

#2. James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360.

Ted Nugent

#3. If you can stay back, you can wait an extra split-second longer, and then you become more relaxed, and that's when you gain confidence.

Justin Morneau

#4. I like to do the splits onstage.

Gavin DeGraw

#5. The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

David Foster Wallace

#6. It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience ... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense.

Giorgio Vasari

#7. Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

John Waters

#8. Similarly, forcing your beliefs onto someone else damages your relationship. The damage may not be easy to spot at first, like tiny cracks in a wooden wheel, but it's just a matter of time before the wheel splits apart.

Derek Lin

#9. In a way the philosopher and the barber are of the same guild; the barber cuts hair and the philosopher splits hairs.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#10. Life would split apart without letters.

Virginia Woolf

#11. Brahma splits Brahmanda into three parts: me, mine and what is not mine. This is Tripura, the three worlds.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#12. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

G.K. Chesterton

#13. Ruby: Oh, you know ... you wait and wait for years for him until you finally give up and move on with your life. You eventually decide to marry Greg and weeks later, Alex splits up with Sally. You know, you two have the worst timing ever. When will you ever learn to catch up with each other?

Cecelia Ahern

#14. There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.

Rudyard Kipling

#15. Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

Tony Blair

#16. Images
split the truth
in fractions.

Denise Levertov

#17. I like crying. And now I not only wanna cry and show my crying to other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!

Woody Harrelson

#18. 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.

David Mamet

#19. I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

Fiona Apple

#20. Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.

Gavyn Davies

#21. I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#22. When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader and 9 percent for George Bush. In the general electorate, the vote was split at 48 percent for Gore and Bush, and 3 percent for Nader.

Walter E. Williams

#23. If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted.

John DeChancie

#24. Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.

Janet Morris

#25. A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane. Sarah dragged her wreckage back to the house up to her bedroom, and down into a deep, dark hole.

Mitch Albom

#26. You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

Edwin Land

#27. The seasons split at the seams: spring, summer, fall and winter. I've always pictured them as giant sacks filled with air and color and smell. When it's time for one season to be over, the next seasons splits open and pours over the world, drowning its tired and waning predecessor with its strength.

Tarryn Fisher

#28. When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.

Laozi

#29. The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.

Beth Moore

#30. Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

Barbara Kingsolver

#31. 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.

Bill Nighy

#32. Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one's sides.

Witold Gombrowicz

#33. Writing is the birth of my closure. Either it splits me open and comes out easy with tears or it pushes me to hysterics. Whichever way, it brings me a new life.

Sandra Proto

#34. The lock splits. The iron gate swings open. She emerges, raises her arms towards the suddenly chilled moon. The world changes.

Margaret Atwood

#35. The best way to carve is not to split.

Laozi

#36. Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

Alexander Lowen