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“The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb.”

Littles Two Book Lasts Past Half Player Members Office Weight Twenties Tables Nine Clock Pushing Thumbs Moths Bookshops

Book:The complete works of George Orwell

Source: The complete works of George Orwell

“Be more attentive to what successful people have to say about all the opportunity around you. Anything important - which takes only two minutes to point out - will exceed most people's attention span by at least a minute and a half. Learn to pay attention for two minutes at a time - and you will see more opportunity than you know what to do with.”

People Knows Two Important Opportunity Pay Attention Half Successful Minutes Pay Attention Successful People Exceed Attention Span

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!”

“Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle.”

Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange

“The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.”

Should Two Whole Sleep Rooms Half Creator Editors

Author:Judith Guest

“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

“Exercise your imagination muscle! How many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? Write down your answers. But don't write them in this book. Grab a separate sheet of paper. I didn't spend two and a half weeks writing a book just so you could mark up the pages with your silly ideas for things you can do with a flowerpot. When it comes down to it, what's wrong with a flowerpot not being a flowerpot? Why is nothing ever good enough for you?”

Writing Two Book Ideas Enough Use Can Do Imagination Answers Half Week Exercise Paper Pages Mark Come Up Silly Muscles Good Enough Sheets Writing A Book

Author:Amy Sedaris

“Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded - and people now use half the world's readily accessible freshwater runoff.”

People World Has Beens Two States Use Running Water United Half United States Majors Rivers Cents

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a dominator model - in which human hierarchies are ultimately backed up by force or the threat of force - or a partnership model, with variations in between.”

Way Humans Two Humanity Force Half Models Female Relation Threat Males Partnership Hierarchy Variation Females And Males

Book:The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

Source: The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

“When you have so many projects to nurture, one or two get real excited and raise their hands. The reaction from it tells when it's time and where to go. I usually have about a half a dozen titles in development; researchers researching and people doing cover. I'm exploring musical vocabularies I want to explore, different genres, and constantly reading things.”

People Want Two Different Real Hands Reading Half Development Projects Raises Musical Excited Reactions Titles Genre Dozen Exploring Nurture Vocabulary Get Real Researchers Different Genres

Author:Frank Wildhorn

“Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.”

People Writing Two Half Careers Talent Draws Come Up

Author:Matt Groening

“I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.”

Two Together Fighting Half Greater Rights Land Greatness Understood Hundred Treated Forty Acres Smallness

Author:Louis Riel

“My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.”

Ifs Said Two Remember Speak Half Lessons Asking Take Me Ballet Mum Remember Me

Author:Joanne Froggatt

“Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.”

Way Two Lying Half Virtue Opposites Vices Half Way Two Opposites

Author:Horace

“I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.”

People Thinking Two Play Hours Dark Half Jokes Manners Invites Retired Half Hours Bad Manners

Author:Bill Nighy

“My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.”

Years Firsts Two Jobs Half Garden Lifts Skis Half A Year

Author:Sara Canning

“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

“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

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

Two Sides Half Two Sides

Book:V.

Source: V.

“I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.”

Firsts Said Two Hours Half Stage Havens Goes On Late Supposed To Be Concerts Fifth Festivals Half Hours Woodstock

Author:Richie Havens

“You can't just be a wimp and then a year and a half or two years later decide to not be a wimp anymore. Because people will always treat you like a wimp once they have decided that's what you are. You have to be strong and tough and intelligent and smart and kind of plan out what you're going to say and know who you are. So that people will get that right away. Because then they're always going to be great to you. And they're always going to treat you with respect.”

People Knows Years Kind Two Strong Half Plans Smart Tough Decided Treats Intelligent Who You Are Two Years Wimps

Author:Stevie Nicks

“I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.”

Knows Two Able Asks Waiting Forget Half Saws Feet Son Beats Sitting Court Guitar My Son Never Forget Tall Acoustics Pajamas Tapping Acoustic Guitar Racquetball

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility.”

“My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.”

Writing Years Firsts Two Three Half Novel Rust Apprentice Half A Year

Author:Philipp Meyer

“That's what I want for my life. I want to go to Peshawar... Because there's more past than present there. Two and a half thousand years of history beneath its soil. How long a list of reasons do you need?”

Want Needs Years Long Two Reason Past Half Thousand Lists Soil Thousand Years

Book:A God in Every Stone

Source: A God in Every Stone

“For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.”

Writing Two Different Use Brain Half Audience Adults

Author:Sara Shepard

“To see something marvelous with your own eyes-that's wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you'll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold only have an incomplete half of it, and that it won't ever really exist as a whole until you're together, talking or thinking about that moment ...that's worth more than one plus one. It's worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can't even imagine it.”

“The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.”

Should Littles Said Two Half Boys Practice Dog Tvs Clothes Fingers Parks Tall Bully Other Half Trailers Trailer Park

Book:Levitating Las Vegas

Source: Levitating Las Vegas

“Pregnancy is a uniquely intimate relationship between two people. All of us luxuriate in this relationship once, and half of us are lucky enough to be able to do it all over again a second time, from the other side as it were. Never again outside of pregnancy can we be so truly intwined with someone else, no matter how hard we try.”

People Trying Two Matter Hard Enough Able Sides Half Lucky Intimate Pregnancy Intimate Relationships

Book:Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy

Source: Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy

“I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose of some horse that looked good to me.”

Ifs Years Stills Two Lasts Lost Half Millions Horse Noses Ems Two Years Dice

Author:Al Capone

“The Twitch community loves watching video games, chatting, and broadcasting. The average viewer watches over an hour and a half of video each day. Over two-thirds of our logged-in users chat each day.”

Two Games Community Hours Half Watches Thirds Average Video Each Day Users Viewers Broadcasting Chatting

Author:Emmett Shear

“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

“Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.”

Kind Two Seems Half Comedy Tradition Crowds Jewels Oxford Cambridge Python Monty

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal interest to accomplish his ends and gives free scope to the unguided exertions and common sense of the people. The Russian centers all his authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.”

“For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists

“Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.”

World Way Writing Years Two Self Lasts Mother Half Built Ill Two Years Sexism Cake Balanced Being A Mother Scolded Ill Tempered Balanced Relationship

Author:Margaret Mead

“The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?”

People Thinking World Years Wells Two Today Order Names Half Cutting Imagine Hundred Folks Credit Debt Cards Mail Old People Credit Card Puzzling

Book:Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Source: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

“A relationship is not two halves coming together to make a whole. Each of you is already complete.”

Two Whole Together Half Coming Together

Author:Nancy Kline

“Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.”

Two Truth Left Half Pairs Gloves Half Truth Left Handed

Book:The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli

Source: The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli

“In the past, in order to continue as a candidate, a serious candidate, you had to be in the top three finishes in Iowa. You had to be in the top two out of New Hampshire. All our presidents elected in the past half-century finished either first or second in New Hampshire and in the top three in Iowa. That changed with the Citizens United, when we gave unlimited amounts of money.”

Firsts Two Past Order Three President United Half Century Changed Serious Amount Citizens Finished Candidates Unlimited Iowa Hampshire New Hampshire Citizens United

Author:Mark Shields

“I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don't feel it's my duty to finish them. I read the last few pages and find out what happens at the end.”

Feels Two Book Ends Happens Lasts Reading Pleasure Half Duty Pages Thirds Enormous Good Book

Author:Jackie French

“Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.”

Years Two Done Mistake Half Years Ago Ridiculous Pot Bats Blunders Lsd

Author:Timothy Leary

“Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.”

Years Two Given Half Disease Years Ago Thirty Precise Motor Thirty Years Half A Year

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.”

“Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexual freedom, there's still no word in the language that doesn't reek with pejorative connotation to describe a woman who has sex freely. Since language frames thought and sets its limits, this is not a trivial matter. For without a word that describes without condemning, it's hard to think about it neutrally as well. When we say the words 'promiscuous woman,' therefore, it's a statement about her character, not just her sexual behavior.”

Thinking Wells Stills Two Matter Hard Character Language Sex Women Interesting Half Revolution Limits Behavior Decades Statements Condemning Connotation Promiscuous Sexual Revolution

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.”

Two Born Half Devil Horns

Author:David Lynch

“A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.”

“I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer; To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do”

Knows I Can Two Age Half Minutes Prejudice Manners Fascinating Entertaining Irritating Sneer Chuckles

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“A new study says that over half of all Californians are obese. In fact, half of Californians are really two-thirds of Californians.”

Two Facts Half Study Thirds Obese Californians

Author:Jay Leno

“Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.”

Two Whole Half Relationship Healthy Relation Love Relationship Healthy Relationship Love And Relationship Relationships And Life Celebrity Relationship Perfect Relationship Old Relationship

Author:Patricia L. Fry