Half Quotes - Page 83

If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.

Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

How old are you? 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.

My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC.

If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.

I find that half of people I meet are open and want the world to love and be loved, but there are others who are bigoted and hurtful, and want to vote for Trump.

The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we intend or would have in this world.

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.

Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.

I like to tell old jokes on stage after about an hour, or an hour and a half. I'll bring those old ones back because the fans love them.

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.

The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.

Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.

Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had come to accept that this would only be half as good as the original, half as acceptable as the flawless, unachievable novel that had acted as a guide, and which he imagined pulsating mockingly behind each book like some ghostly presence.

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.