Half Quotes - Page 72

Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!

If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can!

Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?

...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.

Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

Anybody who's in the dressing room after the show always says, "Oh, my God, I was kind of worried that the show was going to be sleepy because you were half asleep, yawning, and not really present."

There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.

I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.

Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding

I'm at the halfway point of shooting .

Brooklyn praise is half slander.

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.