Half Quotes

Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.

One is always half mad when one is shy of people.

I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am.

Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good to put behind.

Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half.

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.

Women are more than half of our globe, more than half of our promise and potential. And we have been not only underusing that resource but suppressing it.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.

She was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and I think that I have that. The glass is always half full for me.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

Half the people you know are below average.

It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.

Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.

For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.

Half the fun is plan to plan

And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!

Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.