Half Quotes

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

Though a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional.

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.

It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

I haven't counted, obviously, but I reckon I've lost over a year and a half of my career through injury so far.

There's no point doing anything half arsed or if you don't fully believe in it. It will always show otherwise and you'll get found out.

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen. I literally was genuinely thinking 'Well, maybe this is a time loop.'

I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour!

The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013.

You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.

I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.

Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole.

So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh-- crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be.

To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.

Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.

But I need to wake up somehow. Or maybe not. Maybe it’s best to get through the day half-asleep. Maybe that’s the only way to get through today.

What's the difference between Lindsay Lohan and Rick Perry? It only takes Lindsay four and a half hours to finish a sentence.

How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.

First of all, my wife writes half my act. I don't know how I could "steal" from my wife.

This happens to me every couple of years. I'll look at someone I respect and I'll realize that he's outworking me. It changes the way I behave for the next half decade.

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

Its quite pretentious, really, isnt it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

In July everybody you telephone is somewhere else - either on the beach or on vacation, and half the time you're somewhere else too.

I am in favor of the European institutions being led for the next two-and-a-half years as they have been thus far. We need stability.

I would rather lose half of our clients than half of our clients' money.

Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up.

I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.

It was as if, before she'd met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She was petrified of becoming the half-alive person she'd been before.

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.

But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.

It usually takes about two and a half weeks after you're done filming where you kind of return to yourself again.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season.