Quotes by Half Once during the mission I was asked by ground control what I could see. "What do I see?" I replied. "Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, I can see it all. The Earth is so small." Vitaly Sevastyanov spacehalfworld I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things. Vivienne Westwood fashioncareershalf Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was a small country, a small republic. And what is it now? I have looked though the recent statistics, today the population of this country is 1.4 mln people. Where are the people? More than half of the citizens have left the country. Vladimir Putin halfcountrypeople About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone. Virginia Woolf shipshalfwater I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted. W. C. Fields gamblingalcoholhalf If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties. Virginia Woolf paradoxhalfbeautiful Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness. Virginia Woolf designhalfthinking The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke. W. G. Grace hittinghalfmind We only half live when we only half think. Voltaire halfthinking It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made. Voltaire mistresshalfsoul A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause. W. S. Gilbert dozenhalfwind I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. W. Somerset Maugham novelhalftables Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. Wade Davis extinctionhauntinghalf If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half? Wakas Mir barschocolatehalf After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom. Wallace Stegner halfseacountry We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself. Walter Bagehot moonhalfdark Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings. Walter Bagehot campaignshalflife The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good. Walter Cronkite sadnessworkouthalf Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over. Walter Moers atlantisholidayhalf The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance. Walther von der Vogelweide romancehalfsoul«100101102103104105106107108109110»
