My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Reasons why members of Congress deserve a pay raise: Many big corporations are cutting back on bribes; nearly half the members have… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I do 45 minutes a day of stretching and abdominals and I lift light weights of half a kilo. Otherwise, if you… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
To me, the costume does half the job for you, or even more than half of the job. — Phoebe Dynevor Copy Share Image
The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
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An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done,… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously;… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
They who have been bred in the school of politics fail nowand always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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I go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up at 7 a.m. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely… — Alexa Von Tobel Copy Share Image
If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well. — Dayron Robles Copy Share Image
You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent… — Irving Berlin Copy Share Image
Every election, roughly half the population votes Democrat and the other half votes Republican. Now, I understand why the Republicans get one… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
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