Half Quotes - Page 31

We deserved to lose and it was a good result for us, considering the way we played in the second half.

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.

There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise nature, and if it is celestial we invoke God, but if it is a loved one who defects, we excuse ourselves and say we have to be somewhere and are already late for our next appointment. We do not stay to put pennies over the half-dead eyes.

You kind of half-prepare a speech in your head, and then you get up there and then you end up saying nothing that was in your head before you went up there. It's a very weird thing. I never do award speeches too well.

One's not half two. It's two are halves of one.

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.

It was six of a half and one dozen of the other.

I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round.

I drew when I was very, very young. My mom kept stuff I drew when I was 2 and a half years old, because it looked like, you know, like a jaguar as opposed to a cheetah.

Half way down, he encountered Saphira, who had jammed her head and neck as far up the stair as she could, gouging the wood in her frenzy. Little one. She flicked out her tongue and caught him on the hand with its rough tip. He smiled. Then she arched her neck and tried to pull back, but to no avail. What's wrong? I'm stuck. You're... He could not help it;he laughed even though it hurt. The situation was too absurd.

No one can survive on their own. Thinking you can is ridiculous, especially going into the middle half of the 21st century. To think you can do it alone is just ridiculous.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.

One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.