Half Quotes
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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.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
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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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 -
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.
Bernard Lietaer -
I often get disoriented on stage. Half the time I don't even know where I am.
Craig Nicholls -
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 -
My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.
Roberto Alomar -
I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman; half-Nazi, half-Liberace.
Sebastian Horsley -
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 -
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.
Carl Zuckmayer -
One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
Jane Austen -
Maybe he should get a three-year extension after that second half.
Steve Kerr -
There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
Sara Teasdale
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
William Osler -
Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
William Mathews -
It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!
Emily Eden -
I thought we did a good job in the first half of staying with them, making plays when we had to make plays and defending pretty well. I thought in the second half we turned the ball over too much early and that led to baskets.
J. M. Roberts -
The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.
George Jung -
O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
William Morris
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.
Wilson Mizner -
With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today.
Angelina Jolie -
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.
Thomas Sowell