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Quotes About Reassembly

She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with.
~ Douglas Adams
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
~ Derek Walcott
Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.
~ Dan Quayle
Clocks around our house were in danger because I loved to take things apart, and failed to put them back together.
~ Jim Peebles
I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite.
~ Alan Moore
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
~ Derek Walcott
The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.
~ John Podhoretz
If time could run backward, like a film in reverse, we would see this mess reassemble itself into lush green hills and moss-covered ledges of limestone. The streams would run back up the hills to the springs and the salt would stay glittering in underground rooms.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Perhaps we have built a false concept of wholeness and, under the pressure of an artificial unity, people like June explode and fly in all directions. Some day we may be reassembled into a more truthful whole.
~ Anais Nin
Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
~ John Berger
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart… Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
~ John Berger
apart," Abby said. "Yes, except he could put it back
~ Anne Tyler
By transporting Asian species to North America, and North American species to Australia, and Australian species to Africa, and European species to Antarctica, we are, in effect, reassembling the world into one enormous supercontinent—what biologists sometimes refer to as the New Pangaea.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
When we direct our eyes looking forward from the corner of the temple in its normal field of vision, the frontal brain is working with analysis (vitarka). But when we spread our ocular awareness from the back corner of the temple, near the ear, the back brain is brought into play and works with synthesis (vicara). He front brain can dismantle because of its powerful penetration. The back brain is holistic and reassembles.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Daniel O'Connell had to wait until Parliament reassembled to commence his parliamentary career. He finally took his seat on 4 February 1830.
~ Antonia Fraser
With Harley, you build it, then you've got to take it apart.
~ Noah Hathaway
This light unglues the formation and structure of the being for a certain period of time. It will reassemble automatically.
~ Frederick Lenz
the concept of wabi sabi30—or the ability to find beauty in imperfection. If a vase is accidentally broken, for example, they don't throw the pieces away or try to patch it up to hide the accident. Instead, they take golden glue and painstakingly reassemble the vessel, so its unique flaws make the piece more beautiful.
~ Steven Kotler
Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.
~ H.W. Brands
Mitch", but then reattach it and call it "Mitch-all-together.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be.
~ Bill Bryson
Hay épocas en que uno siente que ha caído a pedazos y a la vez se ve a sí mismo en mitad de la carretera estudiando las piezas sueltas, preguntándose si será capaz de montarlas otra vez y qué especie de artefacto saldrá.
~ T.S. Eliot