He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
Horace

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.
Jello Biafra

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
John Churton Collins

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
Eddie Van Halen

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.
Patsy Cline

I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.
Patsy Cline

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Omar Khayyam

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
Jules Verne

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
Janeane Garofalo

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?
Lenny Kravitz

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
Antonio Tabucchi

I'm too old to do things by half.
Lou Reed

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
Merle Haggard

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
Billy Corgan

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
George Whitefield

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
Philip Zimbardo

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.
Arsene Wenger

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
David Mamet

Courage in danger is half the battle.
Titus Maccius Plautus