Half Quotes

For the young Gaels of Ireland Are the lads that drive me mad, For half their words need footnotes And half their rhymes are bad.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.

Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.

The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion

Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful.

Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.

In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us all.

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.

I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

A singer has got a different attitude, they're they're so whacked out they don't know what they're doing half the time. Singers, they don't, they're spoiled too.

It's like being in the position of - in half of the industry's mind, you're kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you're a sellout. But neither one of them are right.

(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

Today, over half of American workers have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will be able to retire with any shred of dignity.

We have two and half million individual campaign contributions, more than any campaign in history.

I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.

Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.

Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.

I’m very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

I know when something is kind of half-baked.

You know your getting older when you lay in bed til 10am and think to yourself god I just wasted half the day.

Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.

The only sport I really get into is snowboarding. Cause that's the only sport where they perform a half pipe just after smoking a full pipe.

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.

I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.

So many movies are so formulaic because you've got to get it done in an hour and a half. On a TV series, that's where the really interesting stuff can happen.

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.

I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

I've endured quite a bit of physical pain. My mom says that I got my first set of stitches when I was one-and-a-half. A cat got my eye.

I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.