Half Quotes

If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.

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

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.

I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.

No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

A well begun is half ended.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.