Half Quotes

I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen.

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

Islam is, to be sure, a big tent, and the one and a half billion Muslims in the world run the gamut from mystical, moderate, pacific Sufis to Salafists.

I once bought an ill-advised half cashmere, half camel hair jumper for £800, then ruined it by spilling a pint of Guinness all over it.

I wanted to do a Chris Farley movie where he's in rehab for half of the film, and for the other half of the movie, he's doing his 'SNL' stuff and his movies.

I was half Catskills comedian, half 1800s matron.

Yes, I'm half Italian. So my grandfather speaks heavy Italian... and I couldn't understand a word he said.

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

After floating for nine and a half months in space, gravity is not your friend.

We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

The weirdest thing I've seen is someone who was a male, and he changed one half of his face to be female.

If we made the 'Batman' games more realistic, you'd have to be Bruce Wayne for half the game, counting his money and dating supermodels.

I don't like the feeling of being too drunk; I don't even like the taste of alcoholic drinks half the time.

I was at rock bottom for a year and a half - and the people who got me out of my rut were my fans.

What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.

You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.

I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.

I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.

It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.

Our shoes weather a lot of blows and sometimes a wrong movement can cause them to come apart in half.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

I'm half Greek, half Australian.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.