Half Quotes - Page 79

Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole.

If I had to rate myself between one and 10? If you're a gingerist and like ginger guys, I guess I'm a seven, with make-up on maybe an eight. If you're not a gingerist, I'm probably a six, six and a half.

Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.

The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013.

I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour!

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

I haven't counted, obviously, but I reckon I've lost over a year and a half of my career through injury so far.

For almost half a century, Fermilab has occupied center stage as physicists have sought to understand the fundamental structure of the universe. The lab deserves a good history, and I'm happy to say that in this book it has one. The authors present a compelling, nuanced, and richly detailed account of the place from its beginnings to the present.

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.

I'm magnetic," she whispered, half awed and half horrified. "I hope you don't start sticking to fridges and stuff," I said in disbelief. Fang dropped down next to me, and the Gasman joined us, squishing in next to Nudge. "What's going on?" Fang asked. "I'm Magnet Girl!" Nudge said, already coming to terms with her new skill.

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.

I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

Though a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

The half-human was the hottest thing he'd ever gotten anywhere near. And he'd cozied up to a lightning strike once or twice before.

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —

I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.