A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes...
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
A can’t in a can—it’s carbonated failure that’s ready to drink. It tastes like the back half of love.
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.
I directed a half hour comedy pilot, 'Upgrade,' and had one of the best times ever! I had such a great time directing; I would love to get to direct another project.
I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you.
We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.
We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.
There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.
When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in Trance, which is about half an hour from Malibu.
Honey will wipe the floor with you." His eyes went half-mast, and his voice dropped in evident pleasure. "I know.
Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.
You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.
