Half Quotes

I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things.

I was always superthin, too skinny, actually. I felt like someone could break me in half. I realize now that being a bit more curvy and toned is so much more beautiful.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

My life sucks when I’m only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what it’s really like, I’d probably jump off a bridge.

Half my fan mail comes from Japan.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.

I've found you can ignore half of what Dox tells you and not miss much-except for maybe they occasional complaint that you're spending too much.

Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.

Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.

Playing half court or even organising a practise game against another team is a great way to train. It ensures a tough session and is often the best way to learn what works and what doesn't

It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for

Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.

I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.

We was half stupid, a third lucky, and three-quarters ferocious.

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.

My dad's all I've ever had. When I was 3 and 4, my mom used to take me to bars. I understand why now - babysitters cost beer, beer and-a-half an hour.

When I was 66, my wife June died of cancer. Two years later--a year and a half ago--I married Kristen McMain, the eternal companion who now stands at my side.

In my experience of doing physical scenes, half of your energy is spent on trying to get the other actor to enter into it physically with you. Most actors don't want to hurt each other.

I figured maybe I had some talent as an investor… since it seemed like I was only a half-assed entrepreneur.

Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.

Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do.

I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

I am completely half afraid to think.

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

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Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

A City that parlies is half gotten. [A city that parleys is half gotten.]

The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.

I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.

With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.

There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around.

If you're only happy when the sun is out, you're missing half of your life.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.