Quotes with half-point

Quotes 301 till 320 of 790.

  • Agatha Christie I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Alan Bennett I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Beck I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej If a great destruction occurs in Bangkok, then the country as a whole is also destroyed. In such a case, what is the point of anyone feeling proud to be the winner, when standing on a pile of ruins and rubble?
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Thomas Wolfe If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Harriet Martineau If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Oprah Winfrey If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Billy Collins If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Ben Schwartz If I play a video game, I have to get through the whole thing. Like, when the new 'Resident Evil' comes out, I have to sit and do the whole thing. It will consume my life. I'm at a point where I don't have much time to play around anymore, so I don't really get started on the games if I won't be able to finish them.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Peter Townshend If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.
    Peter Townshend
    English musician, singer, songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg If I wasn't prepared knowing every year there is a huge chance of a fire that will require me to evacuate my property, then I'm an ignoramus. If people at this point don't see that terrorism is a reality, and don't take steps to prepare themselves a little more than they were the day before, then they are also an irresponsible ignoramus.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Camille Paglia If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ezra Pound If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Octavio Paz If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Antonio Porchia If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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