Half Quotes · Page 51

A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.

— Tony Clark

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

— Gregory Maguire

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

— Mary Renault

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

— Frankie Valli

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

— Saint Francis de Sales

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

— Tom Brady

Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I've been told...

— Phil Collins

It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with [Bernard] Leach.

— Warren MacKenzie

If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one…

— Virginia Woolf

Vitor's always dangerous in the first round and the first half of that first round, he's very dangerous. He's always had pretty…

— Dan Henderson

There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just…

— Travis Morrison

It is a real honour to have been modelling for Britain's biggest paper for half a decade. Page Three is a British…

— Melanie

I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my…

— Neve Campbell

Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood…

— Esi Edugyan

I do work half time as a historian of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and I started my career…

— Alice Dreger

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation…

— William Labov

I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple…

— William Devane

If I hold a twenty pound weight, I cannot detect a fly landing on it because the least detectable difference in the…

— Moshe Feldenkrais

In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in…

— Rio Ferdinand

I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the…

— Annie Dillard

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

In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home —and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a…

— Hunter S. Thompson

See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See,…

— Ezra Pound

We need to remember that we can't compete endlessly with other nations that set their income taxes substantially lower than ours. They…

— Boris Johnson

My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!

— Craig Shoemaker

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

— Ray Bradbury

Most other schools train no-gi part time, or maybe even half the time. We train no-gi all the time.

— Eddie Bravo

The Replacements don't sound like The Replacements half the time!

— Phoebe Bridgers

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I lived in L.A. for a year and a half, and it was too different for me from Denmark.

— King Diamond

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

— Yehudi Menuhin

I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

— Larry David

Your half-caf, double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.

— Eric Kripke

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

— C. P. Scott

I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

— Alex Mack

It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.

— Pierre Corneille

Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.

— Barbara Mertz

My mom is Filipino and my dad is half Russian and half Irish.

— Cheryl Burke

I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.

— Tavi Gevinson