Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cowper

If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.

William Greider

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

Thomas Hardy

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

Philip Greenspun

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

Q'orianka Kilcher

Yes, I’m proud to be indigenous. I’m half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When half-gods go The gods arrive.

Shania Twain

I don't even know half the time what I'm nominated for.

Larry David

I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

Suzanne Brockmann

Jenk shook his head as he headed for the rental car counter. He felt his shoulders tightening as he walked away, certain that Izzy wasn't quite ready to be silent or invisible yet. He was halfway there when Izzy shouted, "Jenkins! I wish I could quit yew!" Of course. The obligatory Brokeback Mountain reference. Jenk flipped Zanella a double bird without bothering to look back.

Steve Toltz

The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.

Stephenie Meyer

Does it bother you, me being half naked all the time?

Stephenie Meyer

There are no rules that can bind you when you find your other half.

Myleene Klass

I eat the same foods but half the quantity.

Tao Lin

It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she the other half. Otherwise, it would not be love, but something completely else–pity or entertainment, or stand-up comedy.

Red Buttons

Moshe Dayan, who said to Sammy Davis, Jr., That's funny, to me you only look half Jewish. Never got a dinner!

Tibor Fischer

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.

Rumi

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.

Rumi

Half-heartedne ss doesn't reach into majesty.

Rumi

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

Tom Robbins

Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

Steve Martin

Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.

Ridley Pearson

I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.

Red Skelton

I've put on a lot of weight... I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born.

T. E. Lawrence

Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

Suze Orman

They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.

Kelly Preston

My big places to shop are Wal-Mart and Target - seriously. That is where half of my stuff comes from now.

Kathleen Winsor

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

Tennessee Williams

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

Tennessee Williams

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

Roger Bacon

Half of science is asking the right questions.

Rush Limbaugh

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.