No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.
I would love to say to all Americans: 'Each candidate is going to produce a film of an hour and a half. You're going to watch one from each candidate, and then you're going to vote!'
An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to.
I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.
Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Better half hanged than ill married.
Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One...
I’d always hated cocktail parties. And this one was worse than most. Overdressed pseudo–people smiled plastic smiles, told one–upmanship stories with phony self–deprecation, then half–listened with painted–on sincerity to the one–upmans...
Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.
Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.
I train every day for 3 to 4 and a half hours.
Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.