Half Quotes

If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you’ll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me.

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

If you're a Mexican citizen whether you live in a shanty shack or the big palace on the beach, when you turn 65, your property taxes are cut in half.

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

It's really just a freedom that we have with Amazon to push ourselves creatively. It allowed me to say, you know, okay this is going to be a little half-hour film here to start the season.

The only one benefiting from this, the American taxpayer, almost half of our taxes, our income taxes, are going to the military and to these wars.

Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already!

So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.

You can make startling changes you can’t even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance.

The first half has gone how I almost half-anticipated.

I advocate the modification of the '67 borders to let about half of the Israeli stay in Palestine.

From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.

North Korea has declared its own time zone that they are calling 'Pyongyang Time,' and set their clocks back half an hour. So if it's say, 11:40 here now in New York, in North Korea it's still 1925.

I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.

My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.

There are these little towns outside of L.A. Once you get an hour and a half, two hours out, you get into these little, tiny towns that are almost like stuck in time.

I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.

I would rather believe for something great and receive half of it, than to believe for nothing and receive all of it!

I like to start my day off every morning, take the first half hour and just search my own heart, see if I'm on the right course, try to be honest with myself - am I doing this for the right reasons?

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.

Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city'half as old asTime'!

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

If I'm halfway to the dream, at best, half of my resources are there. Your resources to fulfill the dream will come during the last step of the dream.

Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.

When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.

Israel gets more than half of all the military purchasing assistance that America gives to all the nations in the world.

Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.

Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.

Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.

Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.

Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.

It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.