Quotes of: Half-past Keyword

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

John Cornyn

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

John Sherman Cooper

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.

David Hyde Pierce

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

David Remnick

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

David Sedaris

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

David Tang

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.

David Walton

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

E. T. Bell

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

Bill Gates

When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.

Buddy Hackett

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

Bill Joy

I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.

Bonnie Langford

I got my boobs done because I wanted to even out my lower half, and I thought that would take the focus away from my hips.

Coco Austin

That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true." "That's because everything is," replied Mr. Bacchus.

Clive Barker

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

George Gurdjieff

In a world of full of manipulation, half-truths and lies, the conspiracy theory is often a safer bet than the official story.

Gary Hopkins

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

Giada De Laurentiis

Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want.

Graham Roberts

I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.

Hamilton Jordan

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

Jack Nicholson

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Jane Smiley