Half Quotes - Page 16

All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.

Sex with my first boyfriend was a little bit like learning how to put in a tampon, but only half as enjoyable!

From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.

People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exactly right. The problem is that this says, because something is vastly improbable, we need a God to explain it. But that God himself would be even more improbable.

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity.

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.

The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.

You have never lost money in stocks over any 20-year period, but you have wiped out half your portfolio in bonds (after inflation). So which is the riskier asset?

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

I'm bored way too easily. I'm staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

I'm not dating anyone. I don't even know where I am half of the time.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.