Half Quotes

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

I am never going to please all 100 million people who read the book. I'll be lucky if half that number are happy with me playing Christian Grey. I know there are campaigns of hate against me already.

One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the undertaker!

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

The plumber he says, never flush a tampon. This is great information, cost me half a weeks pay.

Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.

Half the guys drafted in front of me are working at Target right now.

I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.

The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.

I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.

Every man at three years old is half his height

We deserved to lose and it was a good result for us, considering the way we played in the second half.

Either we're aware and present, or we're not. There is no half way.

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Never underestimate the power that one good workout can have on your mind. Keeping the dream alive is half the battle.

Half-truths are the devil's IOUs.

I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spring I firmly believe anew All the seed catalogues say!

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

I believe no one can afford, endure or can stomach leaving half a life in the parking lot when she or he goes to work. It's a lousy way to live and a lousy way to work.

It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on people. That would be illegitimate and unacceptable and I should be fired.

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours.

So I begged, half way into season two, for them to let me cut my hair.

It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.

I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.

There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery

One's not half two. It's two are halves of one.

Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

The perfect Sunday morning is the family at home, staying in pajamas for half the day and eating a late breakfast.