Source: The Tin Flute (1945), P. 27
“Half light, half shade,
She stood, a sight to make an old man young.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
" The Gardener's Daughter http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/T/TennysonAlfred/verse/englishidyls/gardenersdaughter.html", l. 139-140 (1842)
“Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Half the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for President — the same half?”
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Sometimes quoted as: Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half.
[Bill, Maxwell, http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/07/Columns/In_gloomy_times__let_.shtml, In gloomy times, let's try to find a sense of humor, St. Petersberg Times, 2002-07-07, 2008-10-04]
Variant: Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Source: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, p. 5
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) American science fiction writer
Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 23 (p. 176)
Context: Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man’s faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
“Half a league half a league
Half a league onward
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred:”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade
St. 1
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)
Context: Half a league half a league
Half a league onward
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred:
'Forward the Light Brigade
Charge for the guns' he said
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
