Best Half Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.”

Ifs Chance Half Audience Saws Fairs Shocked Twists Always Believe

Author:Damon Lindelof

“I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.”

Able Half Blood Cooks Italian Italian Food Sicilian

Author:Jen Lancaster

“The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.”

Light Dark Half Planets

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.”

Ifs Years Two Stuff Half Years Ago Two Years Two Years Ago

Author:Zayn Malik

“I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.”

Trying Years America Parent Half Study Groups Six Excellent Permission Boston Scholarship Yale Consulting Half A Year

Author:Indra Nooyi

“I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.”

I Can Certain Half Conditions Ears Constant Damage Nerves Deaf

Author:James Nachtwey

“I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.”

Half England British Theatre Indian Dialect

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.”

Firsts Two Light Half Minutes Vibrations Rockets

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.”

People Writing Years Firsts Jobs Artist Song Half Four Claims Studios Sandwiches Eleven Writing Songs Subway Half A Year Processors

Author:Frank Ocean

“When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.”

Want Said Half Down And Decades Entering Daddy

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.”

World Years Firsts Home Mother Felt Half One Word Anchors

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.”

Thinking Half Dozen Cartoon Truly Happy

Author:Pat Oliphant

“I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.”

Giving Done Half Sexy Beans Lambs

Author:Patrice O'Neal

“For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.”

Years Self Felt Loses Half Issues Worst Hair Eating Weight Destructive Anorexia Self Destructive

Author:Renee Olstead

“I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.”

Want Play Film Half Aliens Illegal Sci Fi Illegal Aliens Sci Fi Film

Author:Michael Pena

“The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.”

Love Done Loses Half Difficulty Tedium

Book:The Gospel in Ezekiel

Source: The Gospel in Ezekiel

“I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.”

Ifs Feels Book Eye Science Brain Half Saws Seeing His Eyes

Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

“We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power.”

People World Should Nations Interest Differences Half Democracy West Jew East Despite Cracks Soviet Eastern Liberating World Domination Rift World Power

Author:Chaim Weizmann

“You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.”

People Years Looks Kids Half Paid Deeper Russia Feds Cattle Moscow Half A Year

Author:Alexander Lebed

“In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.”

“Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.”

Thinking Book Lines Half Written Good Day Bad Day Catch Me

Author:Dennis Lehane

“The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.”

Stories Half Written Written Word Half The Story

Author:James Lafferty

“I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.”

Stills Half

Author:Ridley Pearson

“The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.”

Moments Energy Hours Half Theater Indescribable Live Theater

Author:Adrianne Palicki

“I'm a fan of horrors. I love the ones that make you jump. My girlfriend hates it. I've been dating her for one-and-a-half years and I'm crazy about her, but she's terrified of horror films. Not the cute 'Will you hold me?' way, but she's weeping. With 'House of Wax,' we'll be sleeping and I'll go to the bathroom and she's sitting up waiting for me.”

Way Years Film Hate House Waiting Sleep Half Crazy Fans Horror Sitting Dating Cute Girlfriend Terrified Bathroom Weeping My Girlfriend Horror Film Hold Me Half A Year Sitting Up

Author:Jared Padalecki

“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.”

School Acting Half Crazy Football Grew Grew Up High School Towns Texas Small Town

Author:Jesse Plemons

“I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.”

Challenges Half Lungs Challenge Yourself

Author:Stefanie Powers

“There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.”

Humans Earth Race Half Human Race Oppressors

Author:Susan Powter

“Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.”

Thinking Should Night Hours Half Quality Audience Weekend Sophisticated Thursday Thursday Night

Author:Maggie Q

“I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.”

Men Littles Stories Age Space Half Break Cutting Written Football Speech Paper Six Pages Sticks Seven Edges Eight Squares Bubbles Sheets Spy Folds

Author:Ian Rankin

“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Book Enough Dream Half Novel Five Giving Up Six Dozen Publishers Turned Down

Author:Ian Rankin

“Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.”

Years May Whole Today Force Half Technology Economic Ten Years Ago Investment Gaps Defence Alliances Expenditures Hamper

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.”

“Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.”

Half Our Lives Wonderful Figures Walking Eating Mouths

Author:Gabrielle Reece

“I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.”

People Kind Mean Actors Enjoy Hours Differences Half Tvs Research Bigger Privilege Making A Difference Advocacy Thursday

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.”

Certain Half Poet Proportion Nonsense Excess Cents Documents Privileged Sober One Half Insert Ransom

Author:John Crowe Ransom

“Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.”

Care Half Members Performers Earning Family Members

Author:Martha Reeves

“Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.”

Facts Half Members Resources Bills Wilderness Speakers Recalls Committees Opposing Designation

Author:Nick Rahall

“It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.”

Knows Ends Hours Half Watches Know How Obvious Tedious

Author:Rudy Rucker

“If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Should Waiting Half Leader Steps Plans Late Innovation Customers Consumers Too Late Business Leaders Good Business

Author:Stuart Rose

“I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.”

Wells Age School Born Half Teacher Four Educated Admirable Thirteen Well Educated

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.”

Giving Said Done Whole Dream Bigs Half Week Stupid Amount Anxiety Give Me Presses Stupid Things

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“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.”

Real Ends Hard Play Half Comedy Golf Rounds Woods Checks Golfing Tick Funny Golf Playing Golf Great Golfing Funny Golfing

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.”

“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.”

Chance Half Company Tails Senior Coins Flip Coverage Reluctant Medicare Insurance Companies

Author:John B. Larson

“Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.”

House Hours Walks Half Five Minutes Rocks Five Minutes Parades Half Hours

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.”

Knows Kind Running Half Risk Enormous Reducing Reduction Emissions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Ballparks

Author:Nicholas Stern

“Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.”

World Art Country Shows Film House Half Towns Climate Very Good Size Cinema Smallest Sweden Good Films Norway Small Countries

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it'.”

Want Needs Two Ideas Artist Given Half Type Lucky Come Up Treatment I Want You Other Half

Author:Steve Sabol

“Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.”

Ifs Two Matter Whole Hours Lines Half No Matter What Backgrounds Half Hours

Author:Aaron Tveit

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