“The first half-dozen or so will be nice, but after that, I'm going to want a pro. (Referring to the Muslim concept of achieving 72 virgins upon arrival in heaven).”

“Shaw's relations with women have always been gallant, coy even. The number he has surrendered to physically have been few – perhaps not half a dozen in all – the first man to have cut a path through the theatre and left it strewn with virgins.”

“Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.”

“Be very clear what you want to achieve and go after it and achieve it, but also be empathetic and supportive to those that you work with”

“Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.”

“I'm not looking for much [in a guy], I just want, like, a really nice guy who has, you know, like a job… and the missing half of this golden amulet.”

“Half a dozen slaps the time.”

“There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail.”

“Perhaps no Australian politician, to this day, has made such a mark for so long on the global stage as Hughes achieved in the first half of 1919.”

“Blessed be the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin.”