Half Quotes

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show and it's the only half hour of the day when I laugh and I forget how miserable life is.'

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Well, if you look back, in almost two and a half years, the biggest change probably was in late 2000 when we decided to totally change the CA business model.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.

I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending.

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.'

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

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

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.