Top 1200 Half The Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I am half Bengali and half Irish by birth.

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Christmas traditions are important in my family. Being half English and half Polish-Lithuanian, we have two separate celebrations.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

What we call 'the news' always has tried to tell a story, and it's always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling.

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

I was half Catskills comedian, half 1800s matron.

I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and I would get distracted. Oh, and I have absolutely no sense of direction at all.

When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

It's because you alienate half the room talking about sports. Half the crowd will be against you no matter what you say.

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.

When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.

Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

Knowing is half the battle. Explaining it is the other half.

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.

You're only half the man that I am, and I have half the brain that you do.

Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.

'Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environment. That's what a lot of people relate to in the story.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing I don't like and it's called "talk story." It's when you're talking about the story; the characters are tasked with talking about the story instead of allowing the audience to experience the story.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

I think at one point I had 50 or 60 tattoos, but then they all morphed to become a half sleeve and then a full sleeve and then a sleeve with half my hand and then half my back. So I have so many now where I feel like I can get away with saying, 'I have three tattoos.'

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.

My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

If you gauge how you're doing on whether somebody is responding vocally or not, you're up a creek. You can't do that; you kind of have to be inside of your work and play the scene. And tell the story every day. Tell the story. Tell the story. Regardless of how people are responding, I'm going to tell the story.

The fact that I went from making a minute-and-a-half video in my bedroom to doing an hour-and-a-half live show is just crazy.

The convention of the coming-of-age story and the love story were literally abandoned - because they had to be - and a new kind of coming-of-age and love story emerged that required a different kind of telling the story.

You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

I'm half Jewish, half Christian. I'm a Jew for Jesus.

Too many writers think that all you need to do is write well-but that's only part of what a good book is. Above all, a good book tells a good story. Focus on the story first. Ask yourself, 'Will other people find this story so interesting that they will tell others about it?' Remember: A bestselling book usually follows a simple rule, 'It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told'; not, 'It's a wonderfully told story.'

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.

Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.

At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win; they lose.