“Half my advertising is wasted but I do not know which half.”
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925) English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician
Lord Leverhulme, as cited in: John Sherman Wright, John E. Mertes (1974), Advertising's role in society, p. 78
This quote has also been attributed to John Wanamaker and George Washington Hill
JPR Williams (1949) Welsh rugby union player
JPR Given The Breaks - My Life In Rugby (2007), published by Hodder ISBN 9780340923085
Bill Nye (1955) American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer
[NewsBank, Nye: We must all save the Earth, The Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana, February 21, 2009, Pat Whitney]
George Raft (1901–1980) American actor
George Raft explaining how he spent a $10 million fortune. <br class="br">Quoted in Mardy Grothe, Viva la repartee: clever comebacks and witty retorts from history's great wits and wordsmiths (2005), page 83 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aZpmpt7ksr8C&pg=PA83&dq=%22Part+of+the+loot+went+for+gambling,+part+for+horses%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hBgsT4HyB4_Y8QPpy-HoDg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Part%20of%20the%20loot%20went%20for%20gambling%2C%20part%20for%20horses%22&f=false
“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.”
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) French mime and actor
The Guardian (London, 11 August 1988)
“O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire”
Robert Browning The Ring and the Book
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The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
Context: O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire, —
Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun,
Took sanctuary within the holier blue,
And sang a kindred soul out to his face, —
Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart—
When the first summons from the darkling earth
Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue,
And bared them of the glory — to drop down,
To toil for man, to suffer or to die, —
This is the same voice: can thy soul know change?
Hail then, and hearken from the realms of help!
