Quotes About Half

Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish.

or in the case of half-stroke cycles like the Kondratieff wave, half a human life).

This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true.

Atoms split in the big bang wandering the universe seeking forever their other half to repair the split.

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.

I like it when the team is in control of the match. I like very much the ball possession; I like to play in the other half.

I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.

'Tangerine' was less than half the budget of 'Starlet,' and 'Starlet' was already a microbudget film. A director always wants more time, and we had a limited amount of resources.

If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.

I have heard it said we are the uninvited. We are the unwelcome. We should take our misfortune elsewhere. But I hear your mother's voice, over the tide. and she whispers in my ear, Oh, but if they saw, my darling. Even half of what you have. If only they saw. They would say kinder things, surely.

What are you grinning about, wife? I shrugged, all nonchalant. I like your truck. Good. Apparently, it's half yours.

It is half dawn and half dark and in my drunken dreams I smell flowers and hear a skylark...

To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.

Your eyes surprise me every time I look into them and they're looking back at me. Your mouth surprises me, because you always seem to smile more with one half that with the other, like part of you knows a funny secret that none of the rest of us, not even your other half, can guess.

Mark shrugged. "You know we're going to eat half of them anyway." He gave a wicked grin and invited Cassidy into this fantasy world, where good boys really did get cookies and people sang Christmas carols while stringing tinsel.

I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn't fire one gun and never gets on a horse?

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

I'd spent three and a half years at Swansea, played my first Premier League game there.

It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.