Half Quotes

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!"

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

If you look up gerbil videos online, at least half of them are hiney gerbils.

Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)

I'm a thug. And my thug comes from... my definition of thug comes from half of the street element. Straight street hustling.

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

You won't often find me in a pair of killer heels: my heel height doesn't rise above two and a half inches, as I would just fall over!

'Tis sweet to kiss a girl on Spring's first day, but only half so sweet as 'tis to kiss a girl on her bootyhole.

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.

For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

Half of bravery is perspective.

Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.

If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.

Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

I spent half my life without the internet, it was pretty much the same thing just a whole lot slower and a whole lot more intense!

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.

You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.

It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with [Bernard] Leach.

I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.

I don't know why I've spent over half of My life talking about dying

I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.

She's half mad and three parts drunk.

We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.

In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top.

The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay.

Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.

The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.

Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.

Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.

Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.

Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them.