Half Quotes
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.
It's a big responsibility to be the main part of a film because if you don't like me, you have a problem for two-and-a-half hours.
Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.
If you can't afford a half hour three or four times a week taking care of the most priceless possession, your body, you've got to be sick. You're stupid.
Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.
I was never over-weight, just under-tall. The correct height for my weight at the moment is seven feet ten and a half inches.
I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.
Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.
...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings
I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.
I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.
I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.
I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.
A half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music, and have nothing but fun and music, and I God bless you for it!
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.
Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.
Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.
In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.
If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.
You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.
Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.
The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.
An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.
If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.
It wasn't enough to be positive, focused and fearless, I had to take action! Musicians say that the hardest part of practicing is taking the instrument out of the case. To begin is to be half done!
Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.
You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.
