Half Quotes - Page 5

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters--and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown.

How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.

Don't waste your death on a half assed life

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

A good lather is half the shave.

The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour.

When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.

I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.