Half Quotes

Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.

My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.

He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.

I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too.

Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to resemble as little as possible honest functions which serve some purpose.

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.

Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.

Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of the present and the visible, and so much of the future and the unseen.

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

We can deploy a half a billion more solar panels.

No society can thrive when half its people are left behind.

I spent four and a half hours debating Donald Trump in three debates, which I think should put to rest any questions about my stamina.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it.

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

For me, it's the reactions from the audiences that are golden. If they enjoy it, then half the battle has been won.

Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.

Your favorite volhv showed up half an hour ago, complaining about his lack of sleep and stupid gods. He says he brought his Batman belt.

As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.

Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

Those lips had curved into a knowing half smile that did funny things to her insides. And like a match tossed to gasoline, her body sparked alive and flames licked every inch of her.

When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it.

The half-human was the hottest thing he'd ever gotten anywhere near. And he'd cozied up to a lightning strike once or twice before.