Half Quotes - Page 86

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

It's true that non-ionizing radiation lacks the power to have damage. But its damage seems to come from its modulated signal. So every 900 milliseconds, if you have a cellphone in your pocket, it's getting half of that radiation which is getting into you as it seeks the signal from the tower.

Shamus ordered half a cup of house brew. Then he proceeded to fill the cup up the rest of the way with milk and sugar. Lots of sugar. “Sure you got enough milk in your sugar?” I asked as we strolled out of the shop and headed south. He flipped me off. “You drink your coffee your way, and I’ll drink my coffee the right way.

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

There's no half-assing anything you do if you want to do it well.

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

Id always assumed that by 40 Id have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.

We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.

An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.

I should say, the one thing you run into is, if you're trying to raise a round you have to decide, well, how much money are you trying to raise? And then you have to justify that to your investors, because they want to know why you [are] raising that much? Why aren't you raising either twice as much or half as much?

One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation.

Viewers have a way of remembering the celebrity while forgetting the product. I did not know this when I paid Eleanor Roosevelt $35,000 to make a commercial for margarine. She reported that her mail was equally divided. "One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation." Not one of my proudest memories.

A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.

Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.

When we started the show, there were mixed responses. Half of the people said, 'That show doesn't have a chance.' The other half said, 'That show doesn't have a prayer.'

Reasons why members of Congress deserve a pay raise: Many big corporations are cutting back on bribes; nearly half the members have never been indicted.

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.

Even in the most market-obsessed society, we're still spending half of our time on something other than just getting cash.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.

Half the world is below average and it's not going to get any better.

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.