Half Quotes

I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.

What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter.

Pierre [from Dude, Where's My Car?] could be the best thing I've ever done. When you distill it down to a minute and a half of work, that may be my finest effort.

When need something really aggressive, outrageous and not done half-way, I feel like I'm your girl.

The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

Half of the ills we hoard within our hearts Are ills because we hoard them.

They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

I will reform our broken visa system. Nearly half of the people in this country illegally came here on legal visas and simply never left. We need to fix that.

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

I guess I'm half traditionalist, half modern girl and I just never... I love the digital world and I love electronica and after I shoot everything is digital, but I just... I don't know.

Fruit forced is never half so sweet / As that comes quite in season.

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason.

How had it happened, Simon thought, that he was bound to these people—to people who thought of him as nothing more than a Downworlder, half human at best?

Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,” said Will. “I’ll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery.

The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.

Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.

I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.

If you are saved, the work is only half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ.

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.

There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.

Britney Spears' album Blackout is one of the hottest-selling CDs in the country. We're in a bad place, people: The world is melting, we're at war, and Two and a Half Men is a huge hit.

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied — so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

3 3 3. Only half evil.

Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it.

Basically Britney Spears' video is like a three an a half minute version of Glitter.

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.

Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.