Top 1200 Half The Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.

After a goalless first half, the score at half time is 0-0.

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

My daily breakfast is two poached eggs in the morning with half an avocado, and I get to have half a piece of toast.

Half the world knows not how the other half lies.

The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.

'Somnia' is a story about loss and, I guess, what you're willing to do to have closure and try and feel whole again. It's a story of redemption in a sense. I don't want to give too much away, but it's a heartbreaking story that's incredibly terrifying.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

Mind is a duality; it is always split. There is no single point on which the mind agrees in totality. Half of the mind will agree and half of the mind will disagree, and whatever you choose, you are choosing only the half. The remaining half is going to take revenge. The unchosen part, the left over, will wait for its chance to show you that whatever you have chosen is wrong. But it does not matter which part you choose. Choice itself is wrong.

The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.

I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.

I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.

Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

My mother was born on February 8, 1944, in Lucknow, India. Her father, Albert, was half-Indian and half-Portuguese.

I'm a glass-half-full kind of guy, not half-empty.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

I'm very much half city and half country boy.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

I think 'Hollow City' only took a year and a half to write... but it felt like two and a half!

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.

Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"

For DC, I'm working on the new 'Red Lanterns' and 'JLA Dark.' Both of these are very different books, which is great for me. I've heard 'JLA Dark' described as a team of people with supernatural powers - but that's only half the story.

Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

I was brought up to always see the glass half full instead of half empty and played my cricket that way.

When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.

I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!

If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragraph, they'll go, "Tell me more." And then when you start to write it, they continue to want to read more. And if you don't, it won't work.

I have to make half of my decision based on what I think my fans will appreciate, and the other half has to be for my personal reasons.

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.

Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

My mom is Filipino and my dad is half Russian and half Irish.

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.

This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through art is extremely valuable to the community. The arts belong to everyone and our work should reflect that diversity.

What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story of Jesus, or the story of the great peacemaker who helped create the Iroquois Confederacy in the 15th century. I then use these tales as templates upon which to weave psychological and spiritual exercises which allow us to open ourselves up to the larger venue of a story.

I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something somebody in academia would think about. I just want to tell a story, and if people listen, and if it stays with you, it's a story.

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

I like the Rockabilly look. My background is half Italian, half French. I wear cowboy boots and jeans.

When you do a half-hour show, there's only so much you can do. At best, you're going to get a character with two-and-a-half dimensions.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then we can say this has changed. Until then, these are steps to change if they're consistent.

Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.

A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.