Top 1200 Half Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

I've got a friend who is half-Jewish and half-Italian. If he can't buy it wholesale, he steals it!

How come, when people wear half shirts, it's always the top half?

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

If we reduce batch sizes by half, we also reduce by half the time it will take to process a batch. That means we reduce queue and wait by half as well. Reduce those by half, and we reduce by about half the total time parts spend in the plant. Reduce the time parts spend in the plant and our total lead time condenses. And with faster turn-around on orders, customers get their orders faster.

My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half.

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

I'm half-Italian and half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.

You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!

I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern half) is enveloped in night. Hence the moon itself is illuminated less brightly from the earth, and as a result its secondary light appears fainter to us.

Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers.

You have a wide array of people that are watching something, and you cannot please everyone at the same time. Half the people will love it; half the people will hate it. Half the people won't see it.

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.

Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.

I'm a professor of neuroscience at Stanford University, and I'm kind of half-neurobiologist, half-primatologist.

I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry

I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.

I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half." "Third." "Half." "Thirty-five percent." Jim's voice hardened. "Half." The phone went silent as my former Guild partner mulled it over. "Okay, forty." I hung up.(...) The phone rang. I let it ring twice before I picked it up. "Fine." Jim's voice had a hint of a snarl in it. "Half.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

The Sun represents the right half of the body and the Moon the left half.

My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

If anyone knows me, I feel like I'm half-media, half-player as it is.

Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.

Half the people in the world have never made a phone call... half.

I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?