It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.
I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.
I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.
I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
Where you have been isn't half as important as where you are headed. Keep your sights and focus on the future.
Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.
Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.
But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.
'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.
At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen clubs each asking for a trial.
I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.
While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.
