Half Quotes - Page 84

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.

A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.

Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.

About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.

The things had been made a half a dozen times from silent pictures through the '30s and '40s. In fact, I think there's a version in the '50s. And then, of course, Spielberg eventually did a version of The Lost World, but this [filming] was '91, I think. And we shot it in Zimbabwe.

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.

Artemis: How long will it take you to prepare the time spell? N1 chewed his knuckle: About as long as it takes you to take your clothes off. "Aaarrk," Artemis half choked.

Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

I don't think we'll get caught, but the very possibility is half the fun.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

Youth without beauty is half a prize.

I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.

being chic not only takes a great deal of money but an enormous amount of time. It practically precludes everything else, even being on charity committees. Half of one's time goes getting chic, the other half being seen that way.

I run a lot. I love running. I try to run at least half an hour a day.

I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.

Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.

Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.

I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.