Half Quotes - Page 73

Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.

I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

I am a stranger to half measures.

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.

Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it...quite...fascinating.

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.

Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.

Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.

There are also half bricks. As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls.

Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job. I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now.

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

Saw him where?" "While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts." This seemed to satisfy Ronan was well, because he asked, "What's the other half of her?" "God, Ronan," Adam said. "Enough.

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we only see half.

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of Nature.

If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.

We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast