Half Quotes
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Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"
Abraham Lincoln -
I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.
George Horace Lorimer
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At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.
Arthur Holly Compton -
A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.
Nobuyoshi Araki -
I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.
Vinny Guadagnino -
Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.
Tracy Chevalier -
The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.
Michelle Tea -
I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.
Carol Emshwiller
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Talent without tact is only half talent.
Horace Greeley -
I'm not greedy. I just want my half.
Tom Cruise -
If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.
Albert Einstein -
I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
Vivienne Westwood -
Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.
William E. Geist -
Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
William James
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One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.
William Shakespeare -
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
William Penn -
We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.
William Boyd -
I don't know why I've spent over half of My life talking about dying
Cold Cave -
Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.
Willa Cather -
The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.
William Butler Yeats
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For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Even half a chance beats none.
Cynthia Lord -
Playing half court or even organising a practise game against another team is a great way to train. It ensures a tough session and is often the best way to learn what works and what doesn't
Catherine Cox -
She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.
Fanny Burney