Top 1200 Half A Year Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.

Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway

The training flow for the space station is a year-and-a-half to two years.

The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back' and 'The Year of the Elbow.' This year it's 'The Year of the Ulnar Nerve.' Someone once asked me if I had any physical incapacities of my own. 'Sure I do,' I said. 'One big one - Jim Palmer.'

The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.

I slept on a friend's kitchen floor for a year and a half.

Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing of her annual tide of life by the new verdure that yearly submerges all trace of last year's ebb.

I remember, my first season was 1999, and I must have crashed about 13 times in that first year. But then, in the second season, you crash about half as much and then, in the third year, even less again.

With 'Agent Vinod', there was a lot of chaos with schedules and the film took a year and a half to shoot.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So there is something in adulthood that has to do with accepting the half of things, allowing a renunciation of the other half, accepting half a basket instead of a full basket.

Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta.

I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.

I haven't counted, obviously, but I reckon I've lost over a year and a half of my career through injury so far.

It was a real rough year and a half. I was getting 80 shots every four weeks.

Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that’s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting the cause, and in case I haven’t been the clear, the cause is that one half of the human race is given the same basic equal rights that the other half enjoys. Or, not given. Given back. That is not a milestone, twenty years, that I intend to go unnoticed. I want to make some noise. I want to make a joyful noise, I want to make too much noise. I want the neighbors to complain. I’m tired of being polite about something that matters so much.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.

Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to feed one average meat eater; each cow eats one acre of green plants, soybeans and corn per year; so it takes eight or nine acres of plants a year to feed one meat eater, compared with only half an acre to feed one vegetarian.

I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

I lived in L.A. for a year and a half, and it was too different for me from Denmark.

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.

I actually quit the business. I went and drove a truck for a year and a half.

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

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.

I'm not exactly the type of actress who does half a dozen films a year.

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess. A half-good sex scene is not half as hot; it actually moves into the negative numbers, draining any heat from the surrounding material.

I wrote 'Marvels,' which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote 'Astro City Volume 2 #1,' which was about a guy who had two daughters. In both cases, about a year and a half or two years apart. And then after that, I had two daughters, about a year and a half or two years apart.

I traveled the country for a year and a half helping Hillary Clinton to try to become president.

I'm from Sweden, where it's winter, like, half the year. And it's dark - we barely have any daylight.

When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.

I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.

I work seven days a week and I work about 12 hours a day, from the beginning of September to about the end of May; the school year. I take two days off, Christmas and New Year's, Thanksgiving sometimes - two and a half. And the result is that I bonded myself to my desk.

Recycling, cutting back on driving, and changing out old light bulbs for energy-efficient ones might save half a ton of carbon a year. A household going car-free, flight-free, and vegan - changes impractical, if not outright impossible, for many families to make - might reduce emissions by four tons a year.

I remember when I first came out, it was like half and half, half the female fighters were like, 'I understand why she did it, and I'll fight her,' and half said I shouldn't be in the cage and said horrible, horrific transphobic comments about me.

I would say, in a year, I spend maybe half of that playing FIFA. I love it that much.

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.

I played in England for a year and a half, and I know how English teams play - very well.

We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.

I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman; half-Nazi, half-Liberace.

I don't race a lot, half a dozen (races) a year maybe.

A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.

If for half a year you only get 10 minutes to play from the bench, then you have no rhythm.

I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.

I experimented with weed, Ecstasy, mushrooms and mescaline for about a year and a half.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

I can run a long distance very slowly and I do a half marathon every year.

My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

I did everything in high school - I played tennis, I played basketball, I was in chorus, I was in the band, I even did the mascot senior year... I went to the football games, and at half-time I went across the field, met all the cheerleaders and got their numbers! The same year, I won prom king!

To do a year and a half on stage at the London Palladium was a buzz that's hard to beat.

I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.

I looked at the pilgrims coming to America. In their first year, they decided to try a communist experiment. And the first year of the pilgrims, they established this socialistic concept: 'Well, we have all this land before us - let us all work it together.' Oh, how wonderful it sounded. 'Let us all work it together, and we will share in the produce of the land.' They almost starved to death! Almost half of them died, that very first year.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.