Half Quotes - Page 35

Every copywriter knows what it is to struggle with a copy for hours, for days - fixing it, polishing it, rearranging it. We have all been quilty of leaving the headline until the last and the spending half and hour on it - or perhaps only ten minutes.

I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be a jerk or, perhaps worse, rather common. Now I half expect this reaction and even find it a little reassuring, maybe even uplifting. Isn't it amazing that somebody like that could produce such and such.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

I feel very strongly that clothes that fit well make a person feel better. It's maybe half the value of the merchandise.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.

Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things.

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.

I love the creation of these things — I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.

A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

Half the world knows not how the other half lies.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them.

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.

I've been in a Speedo half my life. So I am really comfortable with my body.