Half Quotes - Page 62

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.

We certainly do have to be realistic about where we stand. It is the case that cancer is the second-leading cause of deaths in the U.S., in fact, in nearly half the states it's the leading cause of death. And we have a ways to go.

You won't often find me in a pair of killer heels: my heel height doesn't rise above two and a half inches, as I would just fall over!

Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)

If you look up gerbil videos online, at least half of them are hiney gerbils.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

I've always had a passion for rap, and I might not be the greatest rapper, but I'm better than half of them out there.

We've still got half of the world that don't know what I look like.

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.

The other great innovation are things like Transparent or One Mississippi on Amazon, Master of None on Netflix, and those half-hours. It's a lot easier to watch a load of those because it's far more palatable to go, "You know, I'm just going to do one more of these."

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.

All I do is work out, oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and entertain me and praise me and listen to my problems, and their life was supposed to be a secret that no one wanted to hear about. I wanted them to stay in the “half closet.

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be candid, there are some who have too much good sense to esteem such monkey-like animals as these, in whose formation, as the saying is, the tailors and barbers go halves with God Almighty.

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.

A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.