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“I'm a fan of horrors. I love the ones that make you jump. My girlfriend hates it. I've been dating her for one-and-a-half years and I'm crazy about her, but she's terrified of horror films. Not the cute 'Will you hold me?' way, but she's weeping. With 'House of Wax,' we'll be sleeping and I'll go to the bathroom and she's sitting up waiting for me.”

Way Years Film Hate House Waiting Sleep Half Crazy Fans Horror Sitting Dating Cute Girlfriend Terrified Bathroom Weeping My Girlfriend Horror Film Hold Me Half A Year Sitting Up

Author:Jared Padalecki

“Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.”

Way Believe I Believe Half Expression Battle Findings

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The perfect bacon sandwich is on white bread, very soft and very thick. Sourdough with a good crust. The bacon is half way to being crispy - and there's lots of it - and enough brown sauce to trickle down your arm. You've not really enjoyed a bacon sandwich unless 10 minutes later you're still licking your wrists.”

Way Stills Enough White Perfect Half Minutes Arms Bread Enjoyed Brown Thick Sandwiches Sauce Wrists Half Way Licking Trickle Down White Bread

Author:Howard Jacobson

“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

“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

“During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.”

Ifs Knows Way Mind Firsts Able Science Purpose Half Knowledge Century Tasks Details Accomplished Devoted Doubtful Generalization Scientific Knowledge Juncture

Author:Hermann von Helmholtz

“Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing.”

Way Bigs Forget Half Projects Half Way

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it.”

Way Next Walks Half Watches Theater Next Day Movie Theater Half Way

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Littles Whole Purpose Given Half Attitude Achieve He Man Ships Muscles Purpose Of Life Backwards Worthiness Strength Of Mind Volition Rudders

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.”

Ifs Way Half Fortune Display Canvas Sail Hindrance Gale Magnanimity

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

“Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.”

Way Done Half Devil Finals Funeral Flags Haul Masts Disbanded

Author:Karl Shapiro

“It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.”

Way Ideas Energy Half Population Good Ideas Organize

Author:Susan Cain

“When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.”

Thinking Way Writing Book Half Focus Percent Hundred Half Way

Author:Anita Desai

“The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.”

Way Two Half Middle Extremes Moderation Dividing Two Extremes Middle Way

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need exact science" But since I have known some workers in science, I have now said, "How much science needs women"”

Way Needs Said Science Used Half Known Workers Educated Exact Sciences Younger Days

Author:Maria Mitchell

“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.”

Way Home Used Half Loneliness Fields Wind Higher Bird Crosses One Way Pencils Permanence Way Home Telegraph Foliage Steeples

Author:A. E. Coppard

“In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.”

Way War Loses Half Tactics Half Way

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.”

Way Fall Half Streets Building Revolution Industry Shadow Rivers Towns Noise Bridges Squares Crossings Civics Systematic Steep Bewildered Marshes Bluffs Confluence Refinery

Book:The Shadow of Innsmouth

Source: The Shadow of Innsmouth

“Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.”

“Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.”

People Thinking Way Needs Helping Feelings Women Half Psychology Need Help

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.”

Men Way Action Half Dreamer Half Way

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature.”

Way Want Doe Art Real Three Literature Existence Half Practice Knowing Example Criticism Deny Profession Neighbor Journalism Artistic Quarters Unreal Real Ones

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.”

Men Way Mind Matter Found Lines Animal Half Creatures Plant Species Borders

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.”

Way Half Novel Ought Puzzling

Author:Randall Jarrell

“God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."”

“I like the trail that the Internet created. For example, I was watching one of those Douglas Sirk movies, and I noticed that Rock Hudson towered over everyone, and I typed in "How tall was" and I saw "How tall was Jesus," and I'm like, "Sure," and half an hour later you're somewhere you didn't expect to be. It doesn't work that same way in books, does it? Even if you have an encyclopedia, the trail isn't that crazy. I like that aspect of it.”

Ifs Way Doe Book Jesus Hours Half Saws Crazy Rocks Example Internet Aspect Tall Trails Encyclopedia

Author:David Sedaris

“Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from ... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.”

“There isn't a single government agency that can't function. There's more money in this federal government, there's more money allocated than these people can possibly spend. They have to concoct asinine ways to spend it, like advertising for new food stamp users. I've gotten to the point, I'm just so righteously indignant and offended at the very idea that our government could ever run out of money when we've got a printing press, for crying out loud. Printed three and a half trillion dollars over seven years and flooded Wall Street with it.”

“Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.”

Way Half Sky Depends Gentle Dawn Goddess Pearls Purple Radiant Gems Hail Blushing Shrubs

Author:William Somervile

“The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.”

Way Humans Would Be Race Half Human Race Prostitution One Half

Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“I'm a person of my own opinions, that's how I was raised. I speak what I feel... A lot of people feel the same way but they're scared to talk. They're really scared of the truth - they only want half of the truth. I've been living like that - forever in fear - but I know what to say and how to say it now. I ain't scared of myself. Y'all may be scared; I'm not scared.”

People Knows Way Want Feels May Persons Speak My Own Half Opinion Forever Raised Scared

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch.”

Men Way Would Be Law Numbers Half Groups Car Birth Evidence Men And Women Court Setting Settings Suspects Load Large Numbers Convicts Half Way Birth Place Martial Law

Author:Georges Bernanos

“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

“When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.”

Way Reason Done Games Lines Poor Behinds Half Steps College Circles Shooting Comparison Fooled Freshman Shooter Free Throw

Author:Wilt Chamberlain

“The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.”

World Way Secret Half Known Wonderful Marvellous

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must be anchored in a different place, and in a different way, than has been the case so far. If it is to be more than just a slogan mocked by half the world, it cannot be expressed in the language of a departing era, and it must not be mere froth floating on the subsiding waters of faith in a purely scientific relationship to the world.”

“In life nothing is taken to its ultimate conclusion, life is a half-way house, a place of obligatory compromise; and, in dealing in logical conclusions, a man steps out of life -- or so it would be quite legitimate to argue.”

Men Way Would Be Life Is House Half Steps Taken Ultimate Arguing Conclusion Compromise Logical Half Way

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.”

Way Truth Half Wonderful Inspire Credibility Half Truth

Book:The Winner

Source: The Winner

“As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them.”

People Thinking Way Should Asks Half Couches Educator Half Way

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.”

Ifs Thinking Way Love Giving Persons Half Risk Couple Giving Up Losing Behave Privacy Love Someone Your Freedom If You Love Someone

Book:Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“It is far best for the Christian never to see some things, so he will never want them. The old-fashioned Christian who will not have playing cards in his house will never learn to gamble with them. One who never sees, in movies and night clubs or elsewhere, half-clothed girls, drinking, smoking, gambling, petting, making love to many men, is likely to miss being led into that kind of life by these sirens of sin. It is the Devil's game to make people think it necessary for people to "know the ways of the world.”

Source: The Ruin of a Christian

“I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really matter what the routine is (coffee shop, someone else's house, my dining room table), I'm pretty fast. I go back to the start of whatever I'm working on, every half hour or so, and revise my way back to where I left off. I have my headphones on, I'm checking email, I look at Twitter and Tumblr, and drink a lot of coffee. I need a lot of distraction to work.”

“If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.”

Ifs Way Country Government Pay Half Atheism Positive Atheism My Way If I Could Officers Deities

Author:George Holyoake

“Jewish women are very exciting, as exciting sexually as any other group. Even so, my advice to a young man marrying a Jewish girl would be to have three and a half years of foreplay. Of course, most girls in every group are reserved about getting down to it. They don't usually do it right away. But once they do it, women are bananas. They don't wanna do it, you can't make them do it, there's no way they'll do it - but once they do it, they don't let you alone.”

Men Way Years Would Be Young Girl Three Courses Half Groups Advice Exciting Young Man Reserved Sexually Bananas Marrying Half A Year

Author:Mel Brooks

“About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes”

Way Ideas Natural Half Design Type Fit Rounds Patterns Holes Squares Recipes Twists Static Peg Perfectly Natural Square Pegs

Author:Steve Yegge

“Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.”

Men Way Half Fortune Misfortunes Half Way

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.”

Ifs Way Trying Matter Enough Half Taken Influence Notes Enormous Observation Sensations Sentiments Perpetual Novelty Monotonous Sorrowful

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things

“Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.”

Thinking Way Stills Shows Lasts Beautiful Death Black Numbers Half Wonderful Sorrow Quiet Stones Horse Dresses Grass Midst Falsehood Sculpture Feathers Spoil Cathedrals Credible Epitaph Amiable Vaults

Book:Works

Source: Works