Half Quotes - page 23

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty. (Eddie Money)
Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair. View quote
Faith Prince
We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it. View quote
Fritz Kreisler
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. View quote
Fay Godwin
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. View quote
Faye Dunaway
For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character. View quote
Ferdinand Mount
Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody. View quote
Florenz Ziegfeld
We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow. View quote
Francis Maude
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. View quote
Frank Yerby
There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know. View quote
Geraldo Rivera
While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing. (Ginny Brown-Waite)
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. View quote
Gloria Naylor
Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement. View quote
Grace Napolitano
We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do. View quote
Geena Davis
It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do. View quote
Geena Davis
I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked. View quote
Genevieve Gorder
I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any good. We didn't have any weights in our clubhouse. We had one exercise bike and that was for the guy who tweaked his hamstring. And that thing didn't even work half the time. View quote
George Brett
In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera. View quote
Harry Shearer
In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable. View quote
Helen Gahagan Douglas
I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for. View quote
Ian Botham
Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites. (Isaac Mayer Wise)
Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy. View quote
Isaac Mizrahi
The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. View quote
James Lafferty
Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field. View quote
Jane Haddam
People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase. View quote
Ja Rule