Half Quotes · Page 45

Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.

— Temple Grandin

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

— Ellis Peters

Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.

— Denis Waitley

There isn't a studio in the world that wouldn't burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie.

— Sydney Pollack

God is my spiritual guide. Half the music I come up with I really don't know where it comes from.

— Rahki

Imagine bringing Canada into a trillion-and-a-half of deficit. That's insane.

— Kevin O'Leary

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

— Hubert Laws

Given half an opportunity to go and play the way I'm playing at the moment, of course I would.

— Kevin Pietersen

I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys…

— Richard Kiel

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…

— Virginia Woolf

The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when…

— Eugene Ionesco

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating…

— Ellen Tauscher

Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut…

— Nathan Myhrvold

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of…

— Laurence Sterne

I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order…

— Marina Abramovic

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of…

— Antony Beevor

I have some questions about betrayal,” I said. “Think about this: A person who calls you his best friend, and says he…

— Franny Billingsley

Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into…

— Jo Bonner

The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who…

— Ariel Pink

When it comes to whether Britain should remain in the European Union, almost all political parties and traditions - Labour, the Greens,…

— Hilary Benn

The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been…

— Charles Krauthammer

I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore.…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was just peeling some potatoes for dinner and they all looked like crisp white potatoes until I cut them in half.…

— Jaclyn Moriarty

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre,…

— Mark Twain

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

— Tobias Smollett

I actually quit the business. I went and drove a truck for a year and a half.

— Johnny Van Zant

Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!

— John Wayne

Half Europe thought... that with the Pope the Papacy was dead.

— Joseph Rickaby

“The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.”

— Balthasar Gracian

A City that parlies is half gotten. [A city that parleys is half gotten.]

— George Herbert

It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.

— Ben Roethlisberger

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

— Barbra Streisand

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.

— Susan Estrich

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

— Pauly Shore

I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence.

— William Shakespeare

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Adapting a book is the most difficult thing because half the time you are wondering what to remove.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

— Lois Lowry