Quotes about half page 6
“You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!”
Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief
Source: The Lightning Thief
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey book Belles on Their Toes
Source: Belles on Their Toes
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXII : Traits of Friendship; Arthur to Helen
Context: I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity.
“TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.”
Bill McKibben (1960) American environmentalist and writer
Source: The Age of Missing Information
“911. Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Abigail Adams (28 December 1794), Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
1790s
Source: Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
“In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
John Steinbeck book The Pearl
Source: The Pearl (1947), Ch. V
Context: He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man. Although she might be puzzled by these differences between man and woman, she knew them and accepted them and needed them. Of course she would follow him, there was no question of that. Sometimes the quality of woman, the reason, the caution, the sense of preservation, could cut through Kino's manness and save them all.
“Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.”
Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
Michelle Tea (1971) American writer
Source: The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Froi of the Exiles
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
Podcast Series 2 Episode 2
On Life
John Keats Ode to a Nightingale
Stanza 6
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale
Source: Complete Poems and Selected Letters
“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
“Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
“We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess
“I am completely half afraid to think.”
Flann O'Brien book The Third Policeman
Source: The Third Policeman (1967)
“There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows
Rat, Ch. 1
Variant: There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908)
Context: There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of ‘em, it doesn’t matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that’s the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don’t; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you’re always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you’ve done it there’s always something else to do.
Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
Source: Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book Three: All Hail and Hallelujah
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Source: The Complete Poems
“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White
Volume II [Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 226 https://books.google.com/books?id=xAm2X8YfpJIC&pg=PA226) <br class="br">Also in The Secret Ingredient by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2012, ISBN 1-442-41960-1] ( p. 169 https://books.google.com/books?id=o1ctj37QuikC&pg=PA169) <br class="br">Source: The Woman in White (1859)
“Half of these aren't even Machiavelli.
Some are Plato, Thucydides etc…. doesnt anyone check these?”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Prologue.
Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954)
“Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Source: City of Bones
“Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.”
Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist