Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.
When you chop wood splinters fly
You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)
You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.
This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.
Vegetarians and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.
Sufferings adversities humiliations failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for You O Jesus.
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.
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.
I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
Even if one glimpses God there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.
I still have wagon splinters stuck to my ass from when my high school coach made me ride the bench.
I felt by turns numb hot with a monstrous embarrassment and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside.
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.
By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke but her heart at the end was in splinters.
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine and when they turn to charcoal put them out and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting.