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“I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of thing. Half the time, these guys are in their pajamas or in their slippers. It's their place.”

Country Guy House Half Desert Farms Farmers Pajamas Packing Slippers

Author:William Devane

“One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.”

Looks Earth Night Stars Half Sky Planets Huge Billions Make Sense Looking Back Galaxy Night Sky

Author:Michio Kaku

“Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.”

Thinking World Looks Half Awareness Fats Dancer Ballet Anorexia

Author:Benjamin Millepied

“I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.”

Years Three Half Taught Grades Half A Year Sixth Grade

Author:Ed Bradley

“As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.”

World Jobs Grows Half Growing Wonderful Dad Curiosity My Dad Other Half

Author:Apolo Ohno

“We spend about 20 percent of our total sleep time in a dream state. For most of us, this means we dream one and a half hours each night or, on the average, spend four years of our lifetime in a dream state.”

Years Mean States Dream Night Hours Sleep Half Four Percent Lifetime Average Four Years Half Hours Time To Sleep

Book:Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble

Source: Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble

“And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul.”

World Long Soul Body Beautiful Hours Half Morning Knowing Missing Bed Charm Prime Fragrance Back Again Sloth Marvellous Long Hours Blessedness

Author:Sarah Smiley

“It is wrong to take half or more of what people earn; wrong to force some people to pay for the support of others, threatening them with jail if they refuse (are in "noncompliance").”

People Ifs Force Pay Half Support Refuse Jail Threatening

Author:Tom Bethell

“Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.”

World Common Half Honest Common Sense Frank Honored Deceitful Honest Truth Half Truth

Book:Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing

Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing

“Dogs are like their owners. If you get an uptight owner, you have an uptight dog. If you have an assertive owner, half drunk who thinks he owns the whole track, the dog will be the same. If you see that kind of person, he doesn't own a miniature Poodle.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Persons Whole Half Dog Track Drunk Owners Miniatures Poodles Assertive Uptight

Author:James R. Heath

“Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.”

Ends Past Sex Half Five Alive Wife Wonderful Berserk

Author:Gavin Ewart

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

Seems Lasts Half Century Boat Sociology

Author:Pierre L. van den Berghe

“There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.”

Actors Strong Half Curiosity Witness Inclination Shortcomings Malicious Novices

Book:Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage

Source: Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage

“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.”

Thinking Men Long Change Hours Mistake Half Remains

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“I have observed gratitude to be a principle, that bears the smallest share in the hearts of those where it ought to be most strongly resident, so that I begin to imagine one half of the world don't understand the real etymology of the word.”

World Heart Real Half Principles Imagine Share Bears Ought Gratitude Smallest Residents One Half Etymology

Author:Charlotte Charke

“Half a loaf is better than no bread.”

Half Gratitude Bread

Book:Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

Source: Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

“fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.”

Home Order Half Misery Arise Household

Book:The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

“whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stove to boil half a century ago and had never been taken off. The steam is pouring out of the nose. The cover is dancing up and down. The very kettle is rocking and jumping. But by some miracle the destructive explosion never happens.”

“In July everybody you telephone is somewhere else - either on the beach or on vacation, and half the time you're somewhere else too.”

Half Beach Vacation Telephones Somewhere Else July

Author:Jean Hersey

“I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.”

Persons Used Half Novel Mystery

Book:Steel Guitar

Source: Steel Guitar

“in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?”

Long Stills Seems Spirit Mother Father Term Loss Grief Half Century Deny Graves Buried Mourn Stirring Half A Century

Author:Eileen Simpson

“I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.”

Thinking Littles Self Remember Faces Used Parent Half Fronts Walking Crowds Applause Folding Walking Out

Author:Dallas Roberts

“They say you should never eat before you go to bed, but I've found just having a tiny little snack - like half an apple or something like that - before you go to sleep really helps.”

Should Littles Helping Found Sleep Half Bed Tiny Apples Going To Sleep Snacks

Author:Kelly Osbourne

“I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, its just another normal.”

People Thinking Would Be Community Half Brother Gay Members Normal Prejudice Lgbt Say Anything Cousin Abnormal Gay Men Hypocritical Lgbt Community

Author:Lea Salonga

“I used to say I live my life a quarter mile at a time and I think that's why we were brothers- because you did, too. No matter where you are, whether it's a quarter mile away or half way across the world. The most important thing in life, will always be the people in this room. Salute mi familia. You'll always be with me... And you'll always be my brother.”

“If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.”

Ifs Want Years Done Shows Certain Turns Three Actors Hours Half Serious Clothes Wake Up Clubs Bother Three Years Loaded

Author:Ali MacGraw

“Unfortunately, many talented people in Hollywood find their values and politics do not reflect the content they create, and many movie themes are in direct contrast with over half of todays American families.”

People Today Values Half Direct Hollywood Theme Contrast American Family

Author:Allen Covert

“I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.”

World Years Looks Home Eye Half Comfortable Other Half Nigeria

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.”

Black Born Half Growing Up Growing Identity Mom Forests Germany Parks Spokes Multiple Accents My Best Friend Mexican Integrated Colombia Vietnamese Multiple Identities

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

“The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much more painful if we wait until there is a climate crisis before recognising that more than half of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to remain in the ground.”

“The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil.”

Thinking Men Want Humans Wells May Real Humor Seems Form Lying Religious Results Half Darkness Blood Shapes Bed Devil Connections Assuming Flesh Mortals Deceiving Flesh And Blood Human Form

Author:Martin Luther

“Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.”

Ifs Children Persons States Whole Eye Grows Differences Education Half Growing Up Virtue Citizens Constitution Regard Making A Difference

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“Move the kundalini from the solar plexus region into the heart center, which purifies it and connects the two halves of you being. Bring the kundalini down again from the heart center to the navel center.”

Heart Two Moving Half Meditation Buddhism Regions Chakra Meditation Navel

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.”

World Firsts War Hours Half War Of The Worlds Impressive World War 2 Monotonous

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.”

May Two Soul Half Rational Faculty Calculations Deliberation

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and evil is murky indeed; and nothing goes quite as we expect. With eye-popping plot twists and rollicking good action, Half a King is definitely a full adventure.”

Book Eye Action Turns Evil Lines Half Enemy Adventure Kings Good And Evil Plot Twists Popping Good Actions Plot Twists

Author:Rick Riordan

“Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.”

Book Half Kings My Favorite Favorite Book

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.”

Two Sides Half Two Sides

Book:V.

Source: V.

“I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for like a half hour to the top of this mountain and you ski down, it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible.”

Long Would Be Past Hours Half Mountain Bottom Incredibles Clouds Lifts Canada Chairs Skis Half Hours Skiing Vancouver Whistler

Author:Sebastian Bach

“Who's started has half finished.”

Author:Horace

“I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you.”

Sometimes Moments Home Bits Half Tough Crowds Cups Away From Home

Author:Lleyton Hewitt

“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.”

Firsts Stills Moving Winning Hours Loses Half Golf Tennis Cant Half Hours

Author:Ivan Lendl

“My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!”

Way Long Remember Father Hours Half Four Journey Tvs Train Sat Supper

Author:Maeve Binchy

“We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.”

Suffering Half Risk Honest Consequence Assuming Luxury Being Honest Germany Afghanistan Pakistan Skates Half Measures Suffering The Consequences

Author:Susan Rice

“It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential... except human beings. A tree does not grow to half its potential size and then say, "l guess that will do." A tree will drive its roots as deep as possible. It will soak up as much nourishment as it can, stretch as high and as wide as nature will allow, and then look down as if to remind us of how much each of us could become if we would only do all that we can.”

Ifs Humans Looks Doe Seems Form Grows Human Beings Half Tree Planets Roots Strive Size Wide Strife Maximum Nourishment Maximum Potential

Author:Jim Rohn

“The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.”

Trying Humans Long Human Beings Attention Half Modern Average Attention Span

Author:Meg Rosoff

“I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.”

Writing Home Used Half Computer My Time

Author:Linda Sue Park

“Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for Seesaw Girl, eight months for Shard, three years for When My Name Was Keoko! The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.”

Writing Years Book Different Girl Three Names Half Taken Four Months Eight Length Three Years Four Years Publishers Publish Another Year Seesaw

Author:Linda Sue Park

“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.”

Ifs Feels Shows Night Hours Half Minutes Materials

Author:Buddy Hackett

“I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.”