Half Quotes - Page 48

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes...

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.

Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

Half the people in the world have never made a phone call... half.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

To love is the half of to believe.

Loving is half of believing.

Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch of things. I'll do cardio for an hour or an hour-and-a-half and weights, just light weights.

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.

The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.