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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.
If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted.
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.
It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.
the next morning, fang and i broke up. now let me get this strait, i broke up with him. a split second after he broke up with me.
I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.
If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
I fall down and my palms split open against the gravel. Injuries on the outside are easy to endure and I get up without hesitation.
Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
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.
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.
So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.'
My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.
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.
I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to constituents.
Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.
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.
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.
If we could see, even for a split second, the depths of God's love for us - all we'd want to do is worship and prayer would never seem a chore.
For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.
I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.
Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.
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.
Divorce is contagious. That's right - when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75 percent.
My campaign filed the bill back in 2002 in the Democratic legislature, 85% Democratic, they could have prevented any possibility of a split vote.
My mom was a cheerleader and had me as a teenager. I remember her giving me some pom-poms and teaching me how to do some splits when I was 3 or 4.
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.
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.
I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once. I said I don't want to talk about it.
The police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in human society Where it is split between those who have and those who ain’t got
My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.
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.
The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry.
God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.
If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.
The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.
Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.
You don't need everyone to help you. You just need one touch of favor, and you will accomplish in a split second what could have taken your whole lifetime.
The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of uncertainty. And I think they ought to work a lot harder.
The best poker game is seven-card stud, high-low splits. I mean, it's the best if you don't have to declare high or low, and can win it all with a low straight.
I understand the plays, the depth, the routes, the splits and everything. I just feel good that I can make some plays. Definitely, the game's slowed down for me.
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.