Half Quotes

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.

You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: 'I could have done that in half an hour, and it's been done before. What's the big deal? I expected something more from him.' Meanwhile, they didn't do it, right? They're still living at home with their mothers.

I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

Courage in danger is half the battle.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

With all the horror in the world and all the crap that's going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That's what a movie is all about.

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

One failure is worth seven and a half successes.

The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s.