Half Quotes

If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.

When people are using their devices, it's probable that almost half are networking on social media.

Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

How old are you? 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.

Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.]

Pleasing ware is half sold.

People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.

I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same.

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.

I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies

This will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome except victory.

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

I haven't seen a half-monkey, half person yet.

I don't think we came from monkeys. I think that's ridiculous. I haven't seen a half-monkey, half-person yet.

Getting picked gives you half that confidence, or 50 per cent of it

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is a man there doing half of it, that's a different world.

Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.

People always remember the second half.

One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though.

They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half.

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

I'm a nervous wreck. If it's a 20-day shoot, at lunchtime on the first day, I'm thinking "Only 19 and a half days to go... I can make it!"

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.

It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.

I'm a fan of half-hour shows that can be both funny and dramatic.