Half Quotes

I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy... I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

I like to look at the glass half full.

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

I'm half Jewish half WASP.

That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

I'm too old to do things by half.

I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.'

I have not told half of what I saw.

I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.