Half Quotes

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.

I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.

I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning.

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.

We should never stop at having won a soul for Christ. By this, we have done only half the work. Every soul won for Christ must be made to be a soul-winner.

If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We have been sick.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

I never thought... that someone liked me... not like a demon... not like a half-demon... not even like human... just like... just like me!" -Inuyasha

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

To live a life half dead, a living death.

I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay

I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.

If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

If you were buying products or going to movies based upon the politics of the people involved, well I probably couldn't go to half the movies I go to.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.

If you give me half a chance. I'll prove this to you. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true.

Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.

To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures and is unforgiving of mistakes.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.

The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.

A European brewery has purchased Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, for $52 billion. Which is a a shame because if they had waited until happy hour, they could have paid half that.

Bewitched is half of everything.

Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.

O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.

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.