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“Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Littles Different Sleep Half Awake Other Half

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Viewers have a way of remembering the celebrity while forgetting the product. I did not know this when I paid Eleanor Roosevelt $35,000 to make a commercial for margarine. She reported that her mail was equally divided. "One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation." Not one of my proudest memories.”

Knows Way Remember Memories Forget Half Products Paid Reputation Divided Mail Viewers Other Half One Half Eleanor

Author:David Ogilvy

“My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.”

Knows Way Years Ideas Different Used Waiting Half Years Ago My Way Half Way

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.”

People Knows Moments Next Rooms Half Tough My Family Performing Hotel Where You Are Airplane Touring Aeroplanes Hotel Rooms Haze Hectic

Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.”

Ifs Knows Feels Believe Doe Facts Mother Sin Half Consciousness Hell Modern Finals Deny God Love God Loves Me

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”

“I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.”

Body Half Female Bills Fraud Reproduction Counterfeit

Author:Cher

“My relationships usually last a few years. When I'm involved with a man, other men are fascinated with me, but the minute I'm single again, half of those men disappear because they don't have the balls to really want me.”

Men Want Years Lasts Half Minutes Involved Balls Disappear Fascinated Want Me Single Again

Author:Cher

“I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.”

World Soul Wanted Half Pride Cost Islam Determined My Soul Making Peace

Author:Salman Rushdie

“A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.”

Way Humans Human Beings Half Half Way

Author:Otto von Bismarck

“You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.”

Firsts Half Collecting Collecting Things

Author:Isabel Allende

“Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.”

World Looks Wealth Half Judgment Argument Destruction Apocalypse Greedy Accumulation Uneasy Persuasive

Book:God is Not Great

Source: God is Not Great

“Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.”

Men World Should Evil Sides Views Half Deeds Every Man Scales Balanced Good Deeds

Author:Maimonides

“At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.”

Art Country Found Deals Half Truth Is Distortion Half Truth Liberal Arts

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.”

Looks Stills Dream Eye Moving Speak Process Half Understood Fearful

Author:Moss Hart

“Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.”

Half Thrown Bricks Half Truth

Author:Hyman Rickover

“For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!”

Men World Beautiful Half This World Sight Angry Pot Lone

Author:Tom Lehrer

“My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.”

Half Albums Finished Solo Puzzles Inadequate Incomplete

Author:Grace Slick

“To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative shape and an organizing idea. Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.”

Writing Art Ideas Half Events Shapes Memoir Narrative Remembered Editors Inventing Imposing

Author:William Zinsser

“From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.”

Three Given My Own Half Feet Lessons

Author:Rita Hayworth

“It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.”

Ifs Half Honor If I Could Very Happy

Author:Ben Roethlisberger

“I hope by the time that I'm done in this game, I can have half the numbers Stan Musial had in his career.”

I Can Done Games Numbers Half Careers

Author:Albert Pujols

“Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.”

Years Jobs Law Results Numbers Half Successful Five Produce Decades Five Years Executives

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“I have lived in many places over the years - sung in many languages too but hearing the Treorchy Male Choir made me realise how deep my feelings are, and always will be, for our beloved Land of Song. Glorious years of hard work and glorious music! Well done! I am only half Welsh - but these sincere good wishes and congratulations come from all of me!”

Years Wells Made Hard Done Feelings Song Language Wish Half Land Hard Work Males Hearing Beloved Glorious Sincere Realising Congratulations Choir Well Done Welsh Good Wishes

Author:Petula Clark

“There's no half-assing anything you do if you want to do it well.”

Ifs Want Wells Half

Author:Delmon Young

“I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.”

Thinking I Can White Half Native Native American

Author:Jacoby Ellsbury

“I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.”

Giving Real Shows Emotion Half Real Life Aggressive Being Real One Half

Author:Eric Gagne

“You may cure yourself of a depression by forcing yourself to perform, in rapid order and with excruciating concentration, half a dozen or so unpleasant chores, especially if they have long been postponed. This is a kind of homeopathic purgative, a treatment of like with like.”

Ifs Kind May Long Order Half Cures Treatment Concentration Dozen Rapids Chores

Book:Time and the Art of Living

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.”

Wells Can Do Hours Half Minutes Angry Damage Speakers

Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

“When I was a player, I'd have a pre-match meal of the biggest lump of fillet steak you could find, followed by rice pudding. Other times I'd have a steak and kidney pie. I'd finish the meal at 12.30 and be playing two-and-a-half hours later.”

Two Hours Half Player Meals Pie Rice Steak Lumps Half Hours Kidneys Pudding Rice Pudding

Author:Fabio Capello

“I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.”

Rooms Half Wall Dressings Liverpool Dressing Rooms Moles Half Time

Author:Kevin Keegan

“I guess politicians can be excused for thinking the electorate is stupid because they keep winning reelection. If you were Barbara Boxer or Harry Reid and you kept being reelected, you'd have to think, 'Half of my state is stupid.' But then you wouldn't be smart enough to think that if you had their brains.”

Ifs Thinking States Enough Winning Brain Half Stupid Politician Smart Boxers Being Smart Electorate Barbara Reelection

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I have four daughters, with the two youngest being four years old and a year and a half. When one of my older daughters was in sixth grade, a classmate brought in their talking Winnie the Pooh doll for show and tell, so the next week my daughter one upped her classmates and brought me to school in for show and tell.”

Years Two Shows School Next Half Talking Four Week Daughter Grades My Daughter Four Years Dolls Next Week Our Daughter Classmates Sixth Grade

Author:Jim Cummings

“I'm a festive guy to begin with and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I went all out on this one costume. It's a ghoul that makes me approximately 10 feet tall when I wear it. I actually got an offer to work at a haunted house because the costume is so great, and I did it for about an hour and a half before I got too cold and had to quit to go inside. Michigan winters are no joke.”

Guy House Hours Half Feet Cold Offers Jokes Winter My Favorite Quitting Holiday Tall Halloween Costumes Michigan Ghouls Festive Haunted Houses

Author:Andre Dirrell

“I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.”

Body Half Morning Minutes Skins Lemons

Author:Josephine Baker

“Half of the people in the world are below average.”

People World Half Average

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.”

War Half Century Consumed One Half

Author:James Monroe

“I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made cooking seem much more complicated than it is, and part of that comes from watching cooking shows on television-we've turned cooking into a spectator sport. ...My wife and I both work, and we can get a very nice dinner on the table in a half hour. It would not take any less time for us to drive to a fast-food outlet and order, sit down, and bus our table.”

“I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.”

I Can Hands Eye Night Sleep Half Knowing Tomorrow Sorrow Waste Meetings Lips Sigh Can't Sleep I Can't Sleep

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.”

“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.”

Thinking World Difficult Half Sun Eclipse Venus Eclipse Of The Sun

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial.”

Heart Hours Half Taken Middle Husband Paper Bags My Husband Heart Attack Paper Bags Polaroids Paramedics

Author:Joan Rivers

“We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal”

Two Hours Half Narrative Prose Half Hours

Book:Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales

Source: Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales

“When people are using their devices, it's probable that almost half are networking on social media.”

People Social Half Media Social Media Devices Networking

Book:Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World

Source: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World

“A problem defined, is a problem half solved.”

Problem Half Defined

Author:Albert Einstein

“A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.”

World Government Running Half Teacher Substitutes Deaf World Government

Book:The CEO of the Sofa

Source: The CEO of the Sofa

“Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.”

Men Order Difficult Half Qualified

Author:Charlotte Whitton

“Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.”

Ifs Art Philosophy Shows Light Half Teach Life Philosophy Shadow Perfection

Book:W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais

Source: W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais

“Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.”

Shows Half Century Laughed 20th Century

Author:Rob Reiner

“My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.”

I Can Two Half Fields Breaths Distance Soccer Swim

Author:Tanc Sade

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