Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

David Duchovny

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

August Wilson

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

Antony Beevor

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

We started slow today. In the second half we played with better intensity than we did in the first half.

We are at the turn, we are halfway around the track. It's just about respecting Michigan State and approaching like we have the other seven (Big Ten games).

We struggled a little and they made it very hard to penetrate the middle. We made some adjustments at halftime and played better.

We started off slow, ... but in the second half we really pulled away.

We started each half missing a wide-open lay-up, and that kind of set the tone. My top three scorers couldn't find the basket.

Jeff Carter

We spent the whole second period in the box. It wears half the team down. We can't be doing that. It kills us.

Loretta Lynn

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

When we were down 11 at halftime, I wasn't happy; but I thought we still had a shot. We took them out of their rhythm in the second half and that was the difference.

Gary Payton

What they were doing in the first half we were doing in the second half.

Avery Johnson

What they have done the first half of the year, I wouldn't have disagreed with five.

Carl Jung

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

Carl Jung

The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

Carl Jung

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

We've got a tough half of the season left, and we'll get it going now.

Bertrand Russell

Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.

Bob Beamon

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Bill McKibben

TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.

Bill Maher

Every election, roughly half the population votes Democrat and the other half votes Republican. Now, I understand why the Republicans get one percent of the vote - the richest one percent.That other percent, someone will have to explain to me.

Bill Griffith

Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.

Benjamin Whichcote

The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

We are already more than half way toward reaching this goal.

Chauncey Depew

As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth.

Cheech Marin

I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.

Usually I can't move that fast. I told myself, 'whoa, I have to slow down or these shoes will take me right to half court'.

We feel that the ECB should take inflation by the scruff of the neck and raise rates by a half percentage point,

To play a first half like we played tonight shows a lack of pride. I feel strongly about the tradition we have here at Toledo, and we're letting that tradition down big time.

We let those first 10 minutes of the second half get away from us.

Bill Pascrell

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

Eugene Fama

People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to be wrong, we ignore them. They are typically right and wrong about half the time.