Half Quotes - page 20

Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much. (Lucy R. Lippard)
Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it. View quote
Zayn Malik
Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well. View quote
R. K. Narayan
The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened. View quote
Howard Nemerov
The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles. View quote
Flann O'Brien
I am completely half afraid to think. View quote
Flann O'Brien
I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that. View quote
Rosie O'Donnell
Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper. View quote
Dodie Smith
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. View quote
Charles Simmons
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around. (Sylvia Earle)
[Responding to the argument that a plant-based diet is extreme] Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that "extreme.”. View quote
Caldwell Esselstyn
I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time. View quote
Esther Williams
I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money. View quote
Albert Gubay
I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process. View quote
Aaron Staton
Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it. View quote
Aaron Tveit
I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus. View quote
Aaron Yoo
A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.' View quote
Aloysius Martinich
For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat. View quote
Alphonso Jackson
But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government. View quote
Alphonso Jackson
I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me. (Althea Gibson)
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. View quote
Andrew Greeley
I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet. View quote
Andrew Wylie
Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women. View quote
Anna Howard Shaw
Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally. View quote
Anne Stevenson