Half Quotes

What really surprised me was that more than half of all deaths by gunshot are suicides, more than 20,000 a year, about 58 a day.

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.

Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair.

The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.

Bryon tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from chronic indigestion.

My glass is not only half-full, it holds five-hundred-dollar-a-bottle Dom Perignon champagne.

I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

The observations that have developed over the years have given us perspective about where we fit in. We are newcomers, really recent arrivals on a planet that is four and a half billion years old.

[Judy Price] Osgood was among about half a dozen [Hillary] Clinton friends who I sat down with more than a year ago before she announced her candidacy.

Oh, Daja," moaned Jory, "you sound just like my parents." She ran from the schoolroom. "Well, there's no reason to insult me, "muttered Daja, half offended.

My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.

Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.

Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the pick has worn down to half its size.

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV.

Her chin lifted. "Very well. Here is my best offer. Half of my nakedness for all of yours." He pretended to think on it. " It's a bargain.

When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.

Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.

The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.

You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.

We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there

It is wrong to take half or more of what people earn; wrong to force some people to pay for the support of others, threatening them with jail if they refuse (are in "noncompliance").

All I do is work out, oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

I started on drums when I was 13 and played them for two years. Then I went to guitar for a year, played keyboards for a year and a half, and went back to guitar.

The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.

We've still got half of the world that don't know what I look like.

I've always had a passion for rap, and I might not be the greatest rapper, but I'm better than half of them out there.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.