Half Quotes

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

After a goalless first half, the score at half time is 0-0.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

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.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.

The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.

When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.