Half Quotes

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A painting that is well composed is half finished. — Pierre Bonnard
No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not exist… — Mavis Gallant
Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as… — Julie Burchill
To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime. — Unknown Author
There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if… — Nam June Paik
Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed: them and us. We are half of the equation. There will not be a magic day… — Tammy Baldwin
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected… — Arthur Conan Doyle
There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't… — Kenneth Grahame
The word in language is half someone elseâ€™sâ€¦ it exists in other peopleâ€™s mouths, in other peopleâ€™s contexts, serving other peopleâ€™s intentions: it is from… — Mikhail Bakhtin
A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were… — Dave Barry
They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they're all lazy or weak of… — Barack Obama
Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where… — Walter Savage Landor
Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced wind turbines or… — Joseph J. Romm
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance… — Daniel Barenboim
When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy… — Francesco Clemente
Almost every scene, I re-think as Im about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time Im changing dialogue or whatever, or… — Chester Brown
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. — Edward Albee
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. — Fritz Kreisler
If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would… — Ian Botham

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