Half Quotes - page 24

Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood. (Jack Huston)
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. View quote
Jessica Savitch
Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip. View quote
John B. Larson
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. View quote
John Churton Collins
In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already. View quote
John Corbett
Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah. View quote
John Lahr
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. View quote
John Robert Seeley
I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car. View quote
John Surtees
If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough? View quote
Jon Lovitz
Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income. View quote
Judy Biggert
Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like. (Jaime Hernandez)
The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women. View quote
James Brolin
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century. View quote
Kenneth Frampton
It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies. View quote
Keren Ann
My big places to shop are Wal-Mart and Target - seriously. That is where half of my stuff comes from now. View quote
Kelly Preston
Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship. View quote
Linda Chavez
Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be. View quote
Lionel Barrymore
Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it. View quote
Louis Leakey
Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program. View quote
Louise Slaughter
Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. View quote
Lucille Roybal-Allard
When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language. (Laura Branigan)
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. View quote
Laurence Housman
One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience. View quote
Lee H. Hamilton
Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members. View quote
Martha Reeves
When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real. View quote
Matt Reeves