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“I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.”

Years Three Force Half Air Months Ten Notion Eight Three Years Air Force

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.”

Should Half Pairs Half Truth

Book:Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.”

Has Beens Law Interesting Half Brother Nuclear Extras Brothers And Sisters Darling Sibling In-laws Nephew Suffocating Nuclear Families Sister In Law Threesome

Author:Jane Smiley

“Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.”

Ideas Together Remember Half Train New Ideas Naps

Author:Jane Smiley

“Prayer and humility, along with a hatred for sin, produces a ‘mind to work.’ ‘So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work’ (Nehemiah 4:6). True revivals of holiness always produce workers. Books and seminars and lectures don’t—but revival does!”

People Mind Doe Book Together Prayer Sin Half Produce Humility Wall Built Hatred Workers Holiness Lectures Revival Seminars Nehemiah

Author:David Wilkerson

“I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.”

Want Kind Party Half Mood Shells Hurricanes Oysters

Book:Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel

Source: Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel

“Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.”

People Guy Jesus Half Violence Crosses Naked Upset Necks Violence In Movies

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.”

Feels Feelings Pain Energy Half Hell Minutes Avoiding Resisting Avoiding Pain

Author:Leigh Newman

“To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising. But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers give off ‘little wet speeches.’ What else? It's brilliantly instead and odd.”

Giving Mind Littles Book Wish Walks Grief Half Tree Sadness Moon Speech Ordinary Shadow Bills Neighbor Curious Odd Surprising Wet Ordinary Life Telescopes Microscopes Twigs

Author:Marianne Boruch

“And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.”

Looks Ends Half Written Cry Pages Awful The End Of The Day Hmm Experiencing Things

Author:Zoe Kazan

“In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.”

Firsts Lasts Cities Half Decades Journalist Permission Bin Laden Compounds Osama Bin Laden Secured February

Author:Peter Bergen

“Never angrily rant into your web cam. While smashing a keyboard in half over a game of 'World of Warcraft' may seem totally justified in your head, to the rest of the known universe you look like a raging psychopath.”

World Looks May Seems Universe Games Half Known Rage Justified Keyboards Psychopath Rant Smashing World Of Warcraft

Author:Ray William Johnson

“If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.”

People Ifs Use Hours Half Nice Swim Pool

Author:Yunjin Kim

“Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.”

Thinking Wells Sides Dark Half Laughing Surface Comic Bucks Dark Side Other Half Flair Pensive Half Of Me

Author:Faith Prince

“Music is half the film.”

Film Half Music Is

Author:Matthew Vaughn

“I waited just to see you at that kind of peace, I wanted to be beside you, I wanted you to wake up slowly or startle, or just half awaken and turn over or murmur my name. I wanted to watch you forever, or sleep beside you forever, or sleep forever while you woke and watched me, something forever anyway. I wanted to kiss you, rumple your hair, rest three fingertips on your hip bone warm and smooth, wake you that way or hush you back to sleep.”

Way Kind Wanted Turns Three Names Sleep Half Watches Forever Hair Kissing Wake Up Warm Bones Hips Smooth Fingertips Hush Beside You Wakes You

Author:Daniel Handler

“First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.”

Firsts Fall Half Finished Snow Bridges Snow Falling First Snow

Author:Matsuo Basho

“I think I was very shy and introverted when I was younger, and yet, when I got in front of the camera or went out on the town, I was able to go out half-naked and do anything.”

Thinking Able Half Fronts Towns Cameras Naked Shy Introverted

Author:Marisa Berenson

“Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.”

People Moments Fall Half Uneasy Sofas Falling Asleep Wince

Author:Mark Haddon

“Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.”

Ifs Knows Care Given Half Know How Population Take Care Access Health Care

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.”

Mind Humans Soul Process Half Cutting Fit Creatures Transformation Casts Butterfly Decay Human Soul Caterpillars Rotting Emblems Deterioration Mythical Creatures Chrysalis

Author:Pat Barker

“... 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.”

People Knows World Want Has Beens Half Forever Sick Illness Mental Illness Like Me Oblivion

Author:Jimmy Piersall

“I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.”

Made Half Pounds Millionaire Borrowed Pact

Author:Albert Gubay

“I do see a lot of my kids, but sometimes I feel as though we have snatched moments. I turn up half way through something, or I only see her at bedtime. I'd like there to be more.”

Way Feels Sometimes Moments Kids Turns Half Bedtime Half Way

Author:Steve McFadden

“I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time.... Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that I should remember; but it was all no good... bread and water was a welcome change to me from the everyday monotony of potatoes and bread-and-butter. After a sound drubbing followed by half a day’s fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.”

Should Together Remember Father Felt Sound Water Half Laughing Cry Devil Everyday Forgotten Punishment Bread Welcome My Time Wickedness Potatoes Fasting Monotony Bread And Butter

Book:The Path of Life

Source: The Path of Life

“The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.”

Certain Sports Results Half Skills Opponents Equations Other Half

Author:Sadaharu Oh

“I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming.”

People Thinking Realizing Loses Hurt Half Millions Tvs Dollars Programming Million Dollars Broadcasting Half Days

Author:Roone Arledge

“In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.”

Made Real Past Certain Effort Half News Aim Hearted Cosmetics Half Hearted

Author:Roone Arledge

“Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.”

Thinking Years Littles Long Lasts Half Developing Publishers 1960s

Author:Dan DeCarlo

“The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!”

Has Beens Jobs Purpose Half Humour Illusion Satire Comforting Back Again Half Truth Veneer Cosy Flanders

Author:Michael Flanders

“I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.”

Half Grew Grew Up South Valleys

Author:Cheech Marin

“My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.”

Trying Half Our Lives Wife Special Adults My Wife California

Author:Pete McCloskey

“I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.”

Stills Passion Names Sound Half Magic Realms Fairy Mary

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.”

Home Half Streets Hospitals Nursing Nursing Home

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.”

Two Three Half Boys Youth

Book:The Spirit of St. Louis

Source: The Spirit of St. Louis

“Well begun is half done.”

Inspirational Wells Done Action Half Philosophical Perseverance Self Discipline Fortune Cookie

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.”

Speak Church Half Institutions Educated Secular

Author:William Ralph Inge

“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.”

Long I Can Night Found Half Solitude Wit

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“Half a calamity is better than a whole one.”

Whole Half Calamity

Book:Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)

Source: Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)

“Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.”

World Half Beauty Trickery

Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper

“Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.”

Work Half Trouble Responsible Adversity Complaining Income

Author:Robert Updegraff

“Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.”

Fun Half Golf Other Half Golfing Funny Golf Great Golfing Funny Golfing Golf Putting

Author:Peter Dobereiner

“We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?”

Two Running Three Half Company Hell Military Army Corners Islands Marine Doing Nothing Marine Corps Usmc United States Marine United States Marine Corps My Marine

Author:John W. Vessey, Jr.

“All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.”

Life Trying Problem Science Joy Nature Answers Half Sea Sky Flower Hair Mountain Bird Mark Grass Feathers Joy Of Life Petals Mammals Interrogation Solved Problems Sea And Sky

Author:J. Arthur Thomson

“If you end up getting into a fight with someone, make sure that you win by at least half a mile.”

Ifs Inspirational Ends Fighting Winning Half Miles

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Understand that workaholics aren't productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half as much as a Lazy Achiever.”

People Inspirational Half Accomplish Contrary Lazy Productive Workaholic Achiever

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments.”

Can Do Hours Walks Half Retirement Beneficial Half Hours Ailments

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.”

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

People World Love Life Funny Half Communication Self Improvement Witty Other Half Effective Communication Good Communication Talking Too Much

Author:Robert Frost

“Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.”

People Reality Suffering Half Alive Boredom

Book:Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within

Source: Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within