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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.

I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't... Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles, it's all the same: 50-50. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself.

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.

On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.

We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing but repentance unto this generation; The adversary is subtle, cunning, he knows that he cannot induce good men and women immediately to do major evils so he moves slyly, whispering half truths until he has his intended victims following him finally he clamps his chains upon them and fetters them tight, and then he laughs at their discomfiture and their misery.

From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible.

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.

...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.

...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.