Half Quotes · Page 290

A poor old man held the winning ticket on a half million dollar lottery. Hearing the old man might be surprised at…

— Art Linkletter

'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what…

— Florence Welch

I sometimes joke that I'm half Jewish, because I was raised Catholic... and we share 'the guilt.'

— John Densmore

The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit…

— Marian Keyes

I've never had my heart broken. And I don't want to have my heart broken. I'm afraid of it. Even when I…

— Ashley Benson

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

— Mignon McLaughlin

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder…

— Jane Austen

I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people.

— Sienna Miller

If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we…

— John Curtin

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

— Boyle Roche

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad…

— Alan K. Simpson

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

— Rumi

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined…

— David Walker

If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half…

— Herman Melville

A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my…

— Richard Pryor

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt…

— Washington Irving

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

— Nina Fedoroff

If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that,…

— Amy Carmichael

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

— Anonymous

I've always wanted to do an album with half the people I've worked with. People like Robert Plant, Paul Rodgers, Jeff Beck…

— Jason Bonham

I am never going to please all 100 million people who read the book. I'll be lucky if half that number are…

— Jamie Dornan

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate…

— Alan Alda

[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in…

— V. S. Pritchett

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

— Don Herold