Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We can't expect to effectively move forward with half the population carrying sandbags. — Lauren Fleshman Copy Share Image
United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm… — John C. Malone Copy Share Image
We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I experimented with weed, Ecstasy, mushrooms and mescaline for about a year and a half. — Melissa Joan Hart Copy Share Image
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron. — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
The [Barack] Obama administration, from the time they've come in, is over 230 years' worth of debt, and he's topped it. He's… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent. — Hal Roach Copy Share Image
The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I'm sure there's a hell of a party in Ireland now and I know I don't have anything to do for two-and-a-half… — Padraig Harrington Copy Share Image
If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
I pledge to invest in women because I believe it offers one of the greatest returns on investment. I am committed to… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
Why doesn't anyone care that the schools in Harlem have been unsuccessful for half a century? Why is this not a big… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
My husband and I own half a dozen iPods, a Mac desktop, and four Mac laptops. We're clearly fans of Mr. Jobs'… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
I did 40 voices for Chris Wedge, the director of the first film, before coming up with the version we used. He… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half. — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Clary glanced past him and asked, "Where's Magnus?" "He said it would be better if he didn't come. Apparently he and the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road. — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
Half the time, I feel like I'm 12. And the rest of the time, I feel like I'm 80. So I guess… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image