Half Hour Quotes

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing, Boring, Living

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
Walter Scott

Life, Eyes, Between

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
Barbara Bush

Mother, Half, Hour

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.
Thomas Friedman

Work, Car, Wife

You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
Padma Lakshmi

Time, Great, Before

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
Nathan Fillion

Work, Care, Parents

Some people come alive at night. I'm hopeless by 9 p.m. Coffee and Cadbury buy me an extra half hour. Often I can't get my clothes off I'm so far gone.
Emily Mortimer

Night, Coffee, Off

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.
Charisma Carpenter

Work, Happy, Working

My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.
Carrie Ann Inaba

Morning, Everything, Through

You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
Sam Donaldson

Wait, Lose, Off

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.
Sharon Gless

Comedy, Half, Drama

I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.
Kelly Ripa

Heart, Important, Try

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.
Sela Ward

Good, Half, Consider

It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again.
Kerry King

Good, Done, Again

The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show and it's the only half hour of the day when I laugh and I forget how miserable life is.'
Danny Masterson

Life, Best, Home

I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour.
Mordechai Vanunu

Family, Two, Half

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
Charles S. Dutton

Writing, Trying, Comedy

I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?
Mark Feuerstein

Time, Nothing, Keep

When you do say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.
Francis Cardinal Spellman

Understand, Half, Side

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