Half Quotes

The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.

When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

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

I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really.

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop. And you know that half an hour from now, you're still gonna be bombing. It takes a thick skin.

In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives always have functions to bring them together. Not here. You don't know what half the wives look like.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on.

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.