Half Quotes

My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

If you give Shevchenko half a chance, he'll score two goals. That's how good he is

Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.

Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

My favorite song is Eminem's 'Rap God.' That joint is just incredible, It's six-and-a-half minutes of him just crushing the whole game. It's so different from what I hear if I listen to the radio.

Those who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well.

I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is.

I'm a half-demon princess. Sure. What's so hard to grasp about that?

Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

The largest portion of our state budget is Health and Human Services. It will grow by approximately $500 million. A half a billion dollars is a very big number.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

It's a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you. Because, I know that no matter what I am doing or where I am, this moon will always be the same size as yours, half a world away.

I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in there, too - you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It's awesome. It's the ultimate fantasy.

I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.

Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.

A lot of good things in my life came form half of my mistakes.

Half of the reason why people aren't able to succeed in life is because they hypnotize themselves into believing that they can't accomplish their goals, it's a mind game they play with themselves.

And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half.

I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.

What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.

Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no dogma, no cant. There are too many people walking around thinking they're sacred cows, and they're only half right.

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

Half of all home accidents happen in the kitchen, and the family has to eat them.

Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.

[The Democratic Party]it's a party with an incredible century-and-a-half history of institutional racism.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.

An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.

One-half plus one-half does not equal one; one whole plus one whole equals relational wholeness.

Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.

A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.

For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

A person who has no friends, lives only half way.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.