Half Quotes

Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper.

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal – a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

I’ve always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved.

It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer sustained discipline attention. It asks you to immerse yourself in something and really deeply feel it.

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.

I didn’t listen to half of the criticism I received. I just didn’t let it enter my brain.