Half Quotes

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

With all the horror in the world and all the crap that's going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That's what a movie is all about.

Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.

Music is half the film.

Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?

I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

What would have become of Ohio State if I said everything? Half the team would have been suspended, and it would have been worse for everybody. I was like, 'Why don't I just take it?'

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.

I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

Your waist size should not be more than half your height.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

Experience is only half of experience.

The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs.

This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty

I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.