August Wilson

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

American Playwright

Brooke Hayward

I have a series of splintered relationships. Why should I get married again? It's a miserable compromise at best. But I believe in marriage and still have fantasies about it.

American Actress

Siobhan Davies

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.

English Dancer

Bonobo

I often have an idea and it starts splintering off into a whole lot of directions; I'm interested in exploring every single one of them.

British Musician

Terence Trent D'Arby

Everyone has a cross to bear. Sometimes I have to take the splinters out of my shoulders.

American Musician

Bum Phillips

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

American Coach

Frank Perdue

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

American Businessman

Theodor W. Adorno

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

German Philosopher

Morgan Saylor

I don't like shoes. I get a lot of splinters, though.

Viv Albertine

The word often implies a sharp pain when the splinter enters the skin.

Physical Sensation

Splinters are often associated with wooden objects like furniture or decking.

Common Occurrences

People often use tweezers to carefully remove a splinter from the skin.

Removal

Splinter as a verb often describes the sudden breaking of something solid.

Sudden Breakage

The act of splintering usually creates a sharp, cracking sound.

Sound Associated

When referring to groups, 'splinter' suggests a breakaway with possible tension or disagreement.

Figurative Use

A splinter group is usually smaller and less influential than the main group.

Minority Standpoint

In sociology, 'splinter' emphasizes a divide in ideologies or beliefs, not physical separation.

Not Always Physical

 It's what women are conditioned to believe success is. And when the chair doesn't fit, when it doesn't reach the table, when it's wobbly, when it's full of splinters, we don't have the luxury of fixing it or finding another one. But we try anyways. We take on that responsibility, and we shoulder that burden.

"A Seat at the Table"...

 hopefully, as in life, you learn from it. Finally, we got to our high point where we had to decide who was gonna go for the summit because we were a team of five and only three could really climb above this, and we made the decision and it splintered our team.

After the Avalanche:...

 Those splinters and tacks feel real, they hurt your own feet and your own heart, but the mother is describing her life here, not her actual house. And hunger, and cold, exhausting work and poverty are what's also inside those splinters.

The art of the metaphor...

 allowed him to venture deeper into a new cave on the lookout for potential living space or valuable resources he can use it's gonna be low so watch it is nearly one mile in the main passage has splintered off into a series of smaller

Checking Out the New...

 the group splinters and the boys submit to their darker urges. The mob of children soon forgets their plans for rescue, silences the few voices of reason, and blindly follows Jack to the edge of the island, and the edge of sanity.

Why should you read...

 about futuristic girls that risk everything to save plants or to race camels or even just to dance, to honor fun, because my world is mostly happy. And I know happiness is a privilege in this current splintered world

Fun, Fierce and...

 world power vast areas of untracked wilderness towering mountain range and the splintered loyalties of many races would have proved difficult for the ablest of generals with strong armies at his

The impact of Simón...

 the young yellowfin tuna move in the speed of this attack is so great that gradually groups of an schibetta are splintered from the main fish ball

Amazing Fish Form Giant...

 the young yellowfin tuna move in the speed of this attack is so great that gradually groups of anchovetta are splintered from the main fishball

The Blue Planet...

 Our organization is one of several around the world that helps people so they can begin to feel safe again. When feeling safe is splintered