Half Quotes - Page 47

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Sex before the game? No problem. But I won't allow it at half-time

Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other.

I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. Who taught you that half-assed existential drivel?

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good.

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing

Finding the tool is often half the battle.

The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.