Half Quotes

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and no longer just in parts.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.

After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.

You should've just gotten a kids' meal.” Adrian told me, pointing to my half-eaten burger and fries. “You could've saved me a lot of money. And gotten a toy.

I couldn't stop staring at the cave, back where Dimitri was, back where half of my soul was.

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!

Don't underestimate Camp Half-Blood.

Race you to the road?" I said. "You are so going to lose." She (Annabeth) took off down Half-Blood Hill and I sprinted after her. For once, I didn't look back.

Thalia's shoulders relaxed. "I owe you one." "Two." "One and a half," Thalia said. She smiled, and for a second, I remembered that I actually liked her when she wasn't yelling at me.

Look, I never wanted to be a half-blood. most of the time it gets you killed in nasty, dangerous ways.

Seven half-bloods shall answer the call To storm or fire the world must fall An oath to keep with a final breath and foes bear arms to the doors of death

I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.

I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.

Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.

The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is rarely seen, nor strayeth far from his bed; The short days pass unwelcomed one by one.

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

I know if you talk faster and use more ten-dollar words than everyone around you, you convince half of them that they should shut up because you know what you're talking about.

A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half.

She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out grass and flowers Despite the snow, Despite the falling snow.

When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?

We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.]

I went to do my first big movie when I was 17. I was in South Africa for three and half months, and I was by myself.

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.

ATLANTA NIGHTS not only changed my life, it changed my mind. An astonishing read, worth it at half the price.

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.

I don't drive an Escalade; I've never lived on a mansion; I live in a townhouse. Even with my internet business, when I was making just shy of a million and a half a year, I lived in the same house.

You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.

They've come out at half time and gone bang.

One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.

By the way, I don't mean to pick nits here, but Obama has just ordered the flag at half-mast for 10 days for Mandela. He did not order the flag at half-mast at all for Lady Thatcher.