Half Quotes

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.

I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half.

Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.