Half Quotes
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Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.
Florida Scott-Maxwell -
It's really just a freedom that we have with Amazon to push ourselves creatively. It allowed me to say, you know, okay this is going to be a little half-hour film here to start the season.
Jill Soloway
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I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.
Stephen Cole Kleene -
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'm not greedy. I just want my half.
Tom Cruise -
Not seeing is half-believing.
Vita Sackville-West -
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 -
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
William Penn
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Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.
Caldwell Esselstyn -
Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"
Abraham Lincoln -
I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.
Errol Flynn -
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 -
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 -
Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a small subplot that feeds in a twist or an unexpected piece of business that ads crunch and flavor to the story as a whole.
Elizabeth Sims
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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 -
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.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
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 -
Even half a chance beats none.
Cynthia Lord -
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 -
I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman; half-Nazi, half-Liberace.
Sebastian Horsley
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Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.
William Julius Wilson -
Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —
Joanne Rowling -
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