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“Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.”

World Giving Writing Made Real Half Decades Real World

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“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

“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

“Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!”

Years Made Stills Dream Enjoy Half Food Hundred Discovery Pressure Stores Kingdoms Pity Atmosphere Abundance Dishes Globes Traveler Lap Unborn Minerals Importation

Book:A Handbook of Gastronomy

Source: A Handbook of Gastronomy

“A garden is half made when it is well planned.”

Wells Made Half Garden

Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey

“One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.”

Men Should Made Two Home Half Century One Day Woods Bent Trails Boston Footsteps Crooked Precedent Calves Primeval

Author:Sam Walter Foss

“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.”

Thinking Years Made Hard School Law Choices Three Parent Decision Half Careers Conscious Decided University Occupation Harsh Half A Year School Days Careers Choices

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.”

People Ifs Made Half Mom Lists Admire Anything And Everything

Author:Patsy Cline

“I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.”

World Made Stills Together Beautiful Used Father Stars Nature Race Half Beauty Morning Creation Fields Plant Envy Contact Dawn Dwelling Eden

Book:Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada

Source: Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada

“Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.”

Should Littles Made Stills Mother Father Parent Half Generations Example Mom Dad Terrible Feminist Dinner Cooks Splits Household Chores Mom And Dad Household Chores

Author:Emily Oster

“Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.”

Men Kind Made Stuff Natural Half Strange Transcending Centaurs

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of these genes ( enzymes and proteins ) as they influence the course of embryology . In so doing we have made the astounding discovery that all complex animal phyla - arthropods and vertebrates in particular - have retained, despite their half-billion years of evolutionary independence, an extensive set of common genetic blueprints for building bodies.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain Of Clams

“Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.”

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made visible things that are invisible to the unaided eye. We have brought the dreamy heavens down to Earth, held them in the mind's eye. Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images... The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God's glory.”

“On the show, I do a very serious thing. And a lot of people have a hard time reconciling that with what I'm going to do after the show. They can't get it into their heads: "How can he be talking to Madeleine Albright one minute and then somebody half his age...." They're just jealous. But I never made any bones about it. I am a player. Always have been.”

People Has Beens Made Hard Shows Age Half Talking Player Minutes Serious Bones Hard Times Jealous One Minute Serious Things Madeleines

Author:Bill Maher

“How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to the death camps. Yeah, and the rates for a third-class ticket, one way. And half price for children.... It was a kind of exploration of evil. Just how bad can we get?”

Way Kind Children Made Whole Evil Pay Half Class Car Thirds Yeah Rate Jew One Way Operations Exploration Camps Holocaust Tickets Railway Death Camps

Author:Martin Amis

“The general election of 1983 has produced one important result that has passed virtually without comment in the media. It is that, for the first time since 1945, a political party with an openly socialist policy has received the support of over eight and a half million people. This is a remarkable development by any standards and it deserves some analysis ... the 1983 Labour manifesto commanded the loyalty of millions of voters and a democratic socialist bridge-head in public understanding and support can be made.”

“The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.”

Years Made Book Stories Half Four Rose Reports

Author:Pete Rose

“Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.”

Source: Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name

“Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.”

Knows Men Made Half Wife He Man Made It Other Half Infidel

Book:Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat

Source: Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat

“The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.”

“I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.”

Ifs Men Mind Made Play Running Lasts Found Half Nice Player Minutes Football Huge Terrible Beats Negative Tonight Concerts Fifteen Liverpool Streaks Barcelona Nice Man

Author:Eamon

“A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.”

People Humans Persons Made Real Half Modern Century Birth Seeking Corporations Artificial Remakes Psychopath Modern Business

Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

“To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell half the story: one also has to consider that the erotic impulse, ever pressing for satisfaction, had something to do with making the history that encouraged its expression.”

Made Self Stories Half Consciousness Conditions Expression Historical Satisfaction Impulse Personal Life Erotic Psychoanalysis Self Consciousness Half The Story

Author:Ellen Willis

“If competitors don't like our two to one advantage, dominating market share with both SP and DS, well, I've got bad news. Because we just made it two and a half to one.”

Ifs Wells Made Two Half Share News Advantage Made It Competitors Bad News Dominating

Author:Reggie Fils-Aime

“When I stopped smoking cigars it was the biggest mistake I made in my life. So my resolution for 98 is Im going to start smoking cigars again. I gave them up about a year and a half ago, and I now realize that it may have been my one last fun, interesting thing to do.”

Years May Has Beens Made Lasts Fun Realizing Interesting Mistake Half Things To Do Smoking Resolution Interesting Things Cigar Biggest Mistake Smoking Cigars

Author:David Letterman

“A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.”

Source: Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy : in Two Volumes

“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.”

Source: I Have Changed

“I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we're only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet.”

People Children Littles Made Care Suffering Bits Numbers Half Taught Planets Disease Little Bit Mouths Adults Germs Brushing

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.”

Made Half Class Students

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“By about a week before the big day, you will have received less than half of your invitation response cards. Panic sets in when it occurs to you that everyone invited will actually show up. You couldn't have made it easier for your guests. You have included a card that had boxes for 'will attend' or 'will not attend.' You included a pre-addressed, stamped envelope. How inconvenient could it be for them simply to check it off and drop it in in a mailbox? Very inconvenient. You, evil bride-to-be, are confronting two basic human fears. A terror of correspondence and the dread of decision-making.”

Source: A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories

“It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.”

Men Made Self Half Originals Filled Patterns Self Made Filled Up Self Made Man

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.”

Made Moments Film Decision Half Havens Example Projects Shots Train Defeat Stuck Occasions Going To Work Runaway

Author:Steven Spielberg

“It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.”

Littles Made Remember Song Half Stage Drug Singing Glad Made It Hazy

Author:Neil Young

“What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.”

Trying Has Beens Made Moments Might Purpose Hours Half Consciousness Activity Despair Filled Demon Might Have Been Energetic Being Me Sap

Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

“This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine.”

Heart Made Evil Speak Strong Stars Half Mines Divine Fine Fool Clay

Book:Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material

Source: Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material

“I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.”

Thinking Humans Made Self Values Half Moral Rights Progress Century Losing Concern Sight Relation Human Rights Self Respect 20th Century Respecting Others Concern For Others

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.”

Feels Made Two Running Hours Half Minutes Cost Benefits Golf Nine Holes Feel Better Better Off Hard Truths

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.”

Firsts Made Hands Age Father Half Missing First Time Balls Feds Racket

Author:Marion Bartoli

“All of my movies are about how I wish the world would work. I've made very few movies about how the world worked. I could name them on one and a half hands, about how my movies have been very reflective of how the world was exactly. A lot of my movies are really about the way I wish the world was, and that's what this whole art form is all about. It's an interpretive art form.”

World Way Has Beens Art Made Whole Hands Form Names Wish Half

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.”

Way Made Half Cases Records Greater Disease Difficulty Posts Physicians Diagnosis One Half Insurmountable

Author:William Osler

“I was 16 when we made the first song. We've been touring for half a decade together and we've had quite a bit of time spent learning our craft. You improve as a song writer and as a musician over time.”

Firsts Made Together Song Bits Half Musician Decades Crafts Touring Time Spent

Author:Andy Biersack

“It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.”

Has Beens Made Soul Seems Lost Half My Soul Mistress

Author:Voltaire

“The Prophet had made dishonorable proposals to my wife... under cover of his asserted 'Revelation.'... Smith told his wife Jane the Lord had commanded that he should take plural wives, to add to his glory... Joseph asked her to give him half her love; she was at liberty to keep the other half for her husband.”

Giving Should Made Half Liberty Lord Wife Husband Glory Add My Wife Prophet Revelations Jane Proposal Other Half Polygamy Dishonorable

Author:William Law

“I definitely want to produce more because I have a bunch of projects that I've either written or half written and I want to continue developing them and if cant direct one right away cause I'm doing something else I will love to still see it get made.”

Ifs Want Made Stills Causes Half Written Produce Projects Direct Bunch Developing Cant

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.”

Ifs Made Hard Hands Seems My Own Perfect Mistake Half Too Much Trouble Conditions Allowing Perfectionist Perfect Conditions Working Too Hard

Author:Howard Hughes

“A poor old man held the winning ticket on a half million dollar lottery. Hearing the old man might be surprised at the shock, the local pastor was asked to break the news gradually. The pastor made a customary call, and while visiting casually asked the old man what he would do with a half million dollars if he had it. The old man replied, "why, I'd give half of it to you." Whereupon the pastor dropped dead.”

Ifs Men Giving Made Might Past Winning Poor Half Break Millions News Dollars Hearing Locals Shock Old Man Tickets Pastor Million Dollars Visiting Lottery

Author:Art Linkletter

“We should never stop at having won a soul for Christ. By this, we have done only half the work. Every soul won for Christ must be made to be a soul-winner.”

Should Made Soul Done Christ Half Winner

Book:Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition

“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

“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.”