Half Quotes - Page 67

Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer hasn't written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?

I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.

I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out.

And in more than half the pictures, she isn't looking at the camera; she's looking at him. Not the way I would look at Ben Parish, all squishy around the eyes. She looks at Evan fiercely, like, This here? It's mine

Look, I never wanted to be a half-blood. most of the time it gets you killed in nasty, dangerous ways.

You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!

Don't underestimate Camp Half-Blood.

Thalia's shoulders relaxed. "I owe you one." "Two." "One and a half," Thalia said. She smiled, and for a second, I remembered that I actually liked her when she wasn't yelling at me.

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

I couldn't stop staring at the cave, back where Dimitri was, back where half of my soul was.

Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, ‘Well, that’s Adrian.

After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.

People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and no longer just in parts.

Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?

If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass

Caprice is half man. There is something manly about her.

When Daniel Gorenstein was chair, he did mathematics from 5am to 12noon, spending the second half of his working day on administration. When I was chair, I also spent half of my time on research: every other minute.