Half Quotes

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion. And it could rise - the casualties could go into thousands and the cost could go over half a trillion - if we stay there for years.

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Your waist size should not be more than half your height.

It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.

Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

They say you should never eat before you go to bed, but I've found just having a tiny little snack - like half an apple or something like that - before you go to sleep really helps.

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

I usually hang around the room listening to a bit of last night's show. If there's one available, I go to the steam room every day for my voice. I spend half an hour there and then I eat, because I can't eat later than four o'clock. Then I go for a soundcheck. That's my day.

I am excited about this. We've got half of our goal. I'd love to see us get a little bit more than half our goal and not be so deeply into this thing going into Sunday, but I feel good about everything.

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

Usually, jet lag is not this big of an issue for me. I'm not sure why I'm so disoriented this time. It could be due to the amount of chocolate and french fries I've eaten in the last two and a half weeks.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.