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Quotes About Half

Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have reduced them to tears within a month." "Such tenderness for your youngest child," Hyacinth muttered. "It quite undoes me.
~ Julia Quinn
You have half a husband, Charlotte. Half a life. I cannot give you the future you deserve. Not a full me. Not a full marriage. Only half. Half a man. Half a King. Half a life." "If what we have is half, then we shall make it the very best half. I love you. It is enough.
~ Julia Quinn
Half of an Assassin is just an Ass.
~ Eve Forward
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.
~ Rowan Atkinson
It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.
~ Alva Myrdal
This supernatural disappearance, the stick gathering, the hill-top and the time of her appearances being the dark half of the year all hint at a Cailleach connection. Additionally we may note here the meaning of the name of the Welsh Gwrach-y-Rhybin, who shares some characteristics with the Cailleach, is hag of the mist.
~ Sorita d'Este
Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture
~ Arthur Koestler
You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.
~ Ellis Peters
Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.
~ David Baldacci
I'm half Mexican so Mexican food I could just eat every single day.
~ Eva Marie
Prisca faceva il morto nell'acqua limpida come cristallo e strizzava gli occhi per guardare il cielo, diviso esattamente a metà dalla striscia bianca di un aeroplano.
~ Bianca Pitzorno
The shadow in my mind lengthened with the night blotting out our half of the world, and beyond it; the whole globe seemed sunk in darkness.
~ Sylvia Plath
I'll talk to my mother," she promised. "If I'm sufficiently annoying, I'm sure I can get the engagement period cut in half." "It makes me wonder," he said. "As your future husband, should I be concerned by your use of the phrase if I'm sufficiently annoying?" "Not if you accede to all of my wishes." "A sentence that concerns me even more," he murmured.
~ Julia Quinn
Modern art he felt should be an interpretation and not a representment of reality, and he taught the golden rule of the artist that the half is usually more expressive than the whole.
~ Frank Harris
I hadn't realized that this whole "water" thing was going to be an issue for me. I mean Ã¢â'¬Â¦ half the world is water, right? And we're all half water to boot. So stepping into the sub should have felt like a sheep falling into a big pile of cotton. Only it didn't. It felt like a sheep falling into a pile of nails. Wet nails. On the bottom of the ocean.
~ Brandon Sanderson
With respect to wit, I learned that there was not much difference between the half and the whole.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.
~ Chiwetel Ejiofor
She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.
~ Hubert Martin
Morvern Callar's' a really weird film, in a sense, where I was trying to experiment with taking things in a different direction, and it kind of half works and it half doesn't. And I kind of felt with that film that perhaps I should have pushed it more into the realms of black comedy slightly.
~ Lynne Ramsay
The brain works fast when it thinks it's about to be cut in half.
~ Terry Pratchett
with the grin of one who mistakenly thinks he's a wit when he's only half a one.
~ Terry Pratchett
It was like rising slowly out of a pink cloud, or a magnificent dream which, try as you might, drains out of your mind as the daylight shuffles in, leaving a terrible sense of loss; nothing, you know instinctively, nothing you're going to experience for the rest of the day is going to be one half as good as that dream.
~ Terry Pratchett
I don't want the whole world, I just want your half.
~ They Might Be Giants
Who is this man?' 'Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor Julius No.' 'No? Spelt like Yes?' 'That's right.
~ Ian Fleming