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?"
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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.
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We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.
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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.
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I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.
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I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.
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Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.
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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.
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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.
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The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps
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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
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Even half a chance beats none.
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In half an hour, I'll know more than you do.
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Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.
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Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —
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One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
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I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don’t inhale my own work.
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Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.
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Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.
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A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
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Talent without tact is only half talent.
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Our American money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.
