Quotes of: Half Keyword

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.

Grover Norquist

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half the time.

Boo Weekley

If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.

Demetri Martin

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

Edith Wharton

Most stories in 'True Blood' take place over a short amount of time. I think the entire three seasons of the show have only spanned a month and a half of those characters' lives.

Michael McMillian

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

Pat Oliphant

I went to Rikers one time to do 'Third Watch,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is a scary place.' We were using a section of the prison where half of it was still populated by inmates.

Selenis Leyva

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

Sarah Polley

When I was 14, I couldn't be bothered to tweeze my eyebrows, so I would shave them in between. One time, my hand slipped, and I had half an eyebrow.

Suki Waterhouse

If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.

Martin Seligman

I've played with so many people that I never really noticed that I was playing with so many people until after it was compiled on the Internet. I just kept going. I haven't even heard half the records I've played on, to tell you the truth.

Harvey Mason, Jr.

Barber Martin: That'll be 10 bucks, Walt. Walt Kowalski: Jesus, what are you, half Jew?

Gran Torino

Saruman: [to Gandalf] Your love of the Halfings' leaf has clearly slowed your mind.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Gerald Root: You would drink, too, if you knew the world half as well as I do.

The Prestige

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Dennis Miller

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.

Jim Rogers

In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.

Louise Leakey

If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

Sam Palladio

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

Nellie McKay