Half Quotes

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.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

Music is half the film.

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.

Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.