Half Quotes · Page 42

But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I…

— Sarah Dessen

It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.

— Molly Bloom

I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the…

— Genevieve Gorder

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half…

— Willa Cather

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.

— Tommy Thompson

I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed…

— John Kennedy Toole

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap,…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will…

— Louis C. K

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

— Cormac McCarthy

Either we're aware and present, or we're not. There is no half way.

— Tenzin Palmo

The distribution of wealth is even more unequal than that of income. ...The wealthiest 5% of American households held 54% of all…

— Janet Yellen

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the…

— Steve Spurrier

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you dont show up.

— Stephen Moyer

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

— Meg Rosoff

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom.…

— Ernest Istook

Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle.

— J. E. B. Stuart

Pot Noodles are my true love because I don't have to cook them. I have a ritual: take one pot noodle, add…

— Nadiya Hussain

I think, internally, we Catholics have known this for a long time. I think we're just thrilled and grateful that the rest…

— Chris Matthews

A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a…

— Anna Quindlen

They say there are something like 12 million illegal immigrants in the country right now, with another half a million coming every…

— Jay Leno

I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread.…

— Swami Vivekananda

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Half the world is below average and it's not going to get any better.

— David Crabb

Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.

— Stephen Kinzer