I cannot recall an instance of anything very dreadful…

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

— Jodi Picoult

Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel about the…

— Noah Hawley

Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's…

— Alan Jackson

Come back and wake me up…half past May! (the Toad)

— Arnold Lobel

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

— Wilkie Collins

Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and…

— Tom Baker

“It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards.”

— Franz Kafka

“Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and…

— Jules Verne

Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.

— Carl Perkins

Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn.

— Bruce Springsteen

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

— Henny Youngman

Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?

— Emilie Autumn

“No, Roger had not seen the funny side. But there had been a moment when, after looking at his watch, he had thought: I…

— John Lanchester

Baby where you been, it's half past ten. Oh, look you're late again. Busy day, got a lot on your mind? You should hear…

— Laura Bell Bundy

There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized…

— Robin Marantz Henig