Half Full Quotes - Page 2

• We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Past, Glasses, Networking

  "Portrait of the artist: Jon Bon Jovi, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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• You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Grateful, Thinking, Glasses

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

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• She was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something in it and room to pour in more.

  Joanne Fluke

  Glasses, Half, Levels

  Joanne Fluke (2011). “Apple Turnover Murder Bundle with Key Lime Pie Murder, Cherry Cheesecake Murder, and Lemon Meringue Pie Murder”, p.51, Kensington Books

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• I picked up my mocha and stood. The cup was still almost half-full, but I didn't want it anymore. Besides, it was now luke-warm. Which meant I didn't have to worry if it was scalding him when I tossed the remains in Ethan's face.I think Finn might have craked a smileas he held the door open for me, but I wasn't sure.

  Jenna Black

  Thinking, Doors, Worry

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• Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Life, Ignorance, Suffering

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

  Diane Keaton

  Half, Stuff, Too Much

  Diane Keaton (2011). “Then Again”, p.248, Random House

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• I see the glass half full...but of poison.

  Woody Allen

  Glasses, Poison, Half

  "Scoop". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!

  Maya Angelou

  Glasses, Half Empty, Negative

  Source: blues.gr

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• Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Glasses, Looks, Each Day

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• I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

  Pauly Shore

  Thinking, Looks, Half

  Twitter post from Aug 16, 2017

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• I've not been able to avoid periods of time where I felt super-lonely. Luckily, I have a side that is able to always see the glass as half-full.

  Will Ferrell

  Lonely, Glasses, Able

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. May 12, 2011.

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• If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.

  Steve Sailer

  Real, Differences, Glasses

  "A Short, Stylized Dialogue On Epigenetics". www.vdare.com. October 26, 2012.

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• Age-old question: Is the glass half empty or half full? Answer: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the glass is half full or half empty? The issue is whether it quenches your thirst.

  Larry Winget

  Glasses, Issues, Age

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• Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

  James Alan Gardner

  Glasses, Toxic, Half

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• Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying. A couple enters a streetcar, half-full, simply takes a seat, undresses, and starts to do it. You can see from surprised faces that it's not staged. It's pure working-class suburb. But what's fascinating is that the people all look, and then they politely ignore it. The message is that even if you're together in public with people, it still counts as private space.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Sex, Couple, Europe

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• Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

  Nora Roberts

  Glasses, Differences, Doe

  Nora Roberts (2006). “Angels Fall”, p.118, Penguin

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• My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and I think that I have that. The glass is always half full for me.

  Sherry Lansing

  Mother, Thinking, Glasses

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman.

  Kliff Kingsbury

  Mom, Glasses, Half

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• As an optimist, I choose to be glass-half-full about [Donald Trump] while still very cautiously appreciating and understanding the fear that a lot of our fellow citizens have.

  Margaret Hoover

  Glasses, Appreciate, Understanding

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Thinking, Glasses, Half

  Source: www.blogher.com

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• To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.

  Yves Behar

  Emotional, Glasses, Design

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• The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

  Grace Hopper

  Glasses, Needs, Half

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• I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

  Damon Lindelof

  Glasses, Half, Empty

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

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• Pardon me for finding the glass half full.

  Rupert Giles

  Glasses, Half, Pardon

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• Hell ain't half full.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Half, Hell

  "Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West". Book by Cormac McCarthy, Chapter III, 1985.

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