Quotes with half-believers

Quotes 201 till 220 of 368.

  • Raymond Chandler Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Benjamin Millepied Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • Caroll Spinney Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Brenda Song My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Bill Burr My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I don't like it is when I'm off. Then that hour feels like a day and a half.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Bill Walton My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • B. B. King My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • John Ray Never meet trouble half-way.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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  • Sydney Smith Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Yogi Berra Ninety percent of this game is half mental.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Kahlil Gibran No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Robert Half No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Samuel Johnson No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Cowper No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Theresa May Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.
    British Prime Minister Theresa May Outlines Plan To Leave European Union (2017)
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Barry Cornwall Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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