I write best in the morning, and I can only write for…

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

— Hubert Laws

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted…

— Camille Paglia

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,…

— Joseph Addison

I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our…

— Brian Reade

Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a…

— Rachel Johnson

In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

— Bret Harte

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on…

— George Eliot

I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards…

— Jonathan Swift

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter…

— Tom Stoppard

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…

— Kelly Link

I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or…

— Miles Davis

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

— Henry A. Wallace

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom…

— Jonathan Tropper

In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions…

— Josh Fox