Half Quotes · Page 280

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

— Donald Miller

How come, when people wear half shirts, it's always the top half?

— Dana Gould

Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.

— Melanne Verveer

When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae,…

— Reyner Banham

I went into politics thinking that, if I made arguments in good faith, I'd get a hearing. It's a reasonable assumption, but…

— Michael Ignatieff

If you have a universe that was just the mirror image of the one we know about, then in fact, presumably it…

— Ronald Breslow

Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.

— William Langewiesche

Worldwide, half of all brains are in women.

— Vera Rubin

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now,…

— Larry King

If you're a great defensive player, you're a great defensive player 100% of the time. You can't be a great defensive player…

— Doc Rivers

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— David Lynch

Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's…

— Stephen Hawking

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of…

— Rob Reiner

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.

— Thomas Harris

I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and…

— Jane Fonda

Sometimes I train in the middle of the night, all on my own. Can't sleep, don't want to sleep, get up, go…

— Conor McGregor

Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch…

— Travis Barker

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half…

— Ernestine Rose

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never…

— Randolph Bourne

The perfect Sunday morning is the family at home, staying in pajamas for half the day and eating a late breakfast.

— Christine Taylor

At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant, two adults and…

— Dwight L. Moody

TV writing - for me, at least - is half original voice and half an embodiment and a representation of the spirit…

— Julie Plec

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

— David Remnick