Half Quotes - Page 13

• Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fighting, Order, Color

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• An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Eclipse Of The Sun, World

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial.

  Joan Rivers

  Husband, Taken, Heart

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• We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Two, Narrative, Hours

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.612, Broadview Press

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• When people are using their devices, it's probable that almost half are networking on social media.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Media, People, Networking

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• A problem defined, is a problem half solved.

  Albert Einstein

  Problem, Defined

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• A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Teacher, World Government

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The CEO of the Sofa”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Men, Order, Difficult

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• Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

  Rob Reiner

  Century, Shows, Laughed

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.

  Tanc Sade

  Soccer, Distance, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• Every movie is a commitment of a year or a year and a half. Commercials are much faster than that because they're much more contained. You can get in and out really fast, and you do a piece of work the you see the end result very quickly.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Commitment, Years, Pieces

  Source: collider.com

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• I ended up meeting this guy Stefan Simchowitz, who produced Requiem for a Dream and also went to AFI. I randomly met him in Cannes. By September of 2000, we had made a deal with this company that he was working with. They merged with us and in January of 2001, we opened WireImage. It was pretty crazy because I only started shooting celebrity stuff in 1998 - literally two and a half years later, I'm opening this company.

  Jeff Vespa

  Dream, Crazy, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Leica are known for their still camera lenses and in the last year and a half have come out with a series of film lenses and they are brilliant. The best thing about them, apart from their quality, which is uniform, is that each one is the same size, pretty much the same weight... So in terms of fitting into the rig, everything is almost purpose built for that and the quality is beautiful, really beautiful.

  Michael Seresin

  Beautiful, Years, Quality

  Source: collider.com

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• Normally, when I read a script, it takes me two and a half hours. I usually put it down and come back to it. So, I know if I can read a script in one sitting, it's a fantastic script.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Two, Sitting, Down And

  Source: collider.com

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• You can get stuff done in New York that you can't in Los Angeles. If you wanted to get some milk and get your shoes repaired and drop something off at the dry cleaner, that's an all-day adventure in Los Angeles. In New York, you can bang that out in half an hour.

  Justin Theroux

  New York, Adventure, Shoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the challenges assembling the film was that gun fight went on for three and a half hours and we obviously couldn't spend three and a half hours of the film with one gun fight. It was trying to figure out the balance of how much an audience could take before they either became repulsed or desensitized or bored or just overwhelmed.

  Peter Berg

  Fighting, Gun, Bored

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.

  Terence Winter

  Real, Focus, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• When need something really aggressive, outrageous and not done half-way, I feel like I'm your girl.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Girl, Needs, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Father, Eight, Judging

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• Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.

  Saadi

  Hands, Coins, Loses

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• I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

  Jeb Bush

  Issues, Dollars, Needs

  "Jeb Bush's Planned Parenthood jab backfires" By Eric Bradner, Ashley Killough, www.cnn.com. August 5, 2015.

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• I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Real, Hatred, Alive

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• (R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end.

  Terry Teachout

  Editing, Attention, Tvs

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• They say there are something like 12 million illegal immigrants in the country right now, with another half a million coming every year. Remember in the last election when the Democrats claimed there was two Americas? Turns out one of them was Mexico.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Years, Two

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• I am riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half pipe snowboarding. I am fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I am also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

  Lucy Walker

  Sports, Snowboarding, Surfing

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