Halfway Quotes - Page 17

• A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

  Dion Fortune

  Religious, Atheist, Religion

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• Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Destiny, Assistance

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• I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.

  Kirstie Alley

  Heart, Night, Broken

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been" by Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• The safest place to be is always halfway into your future, without even knowing what it is.

  Robert Krulwich

  Knowing, Your Future, Our Future

  "'The Safest Place To Be Is Always Halfway Into Your Future.' - An Interview with Radiolab". Interview with Robert Krulwich, logger.believermag.com. August 2, 2013.

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• So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.

  Philip K. Dick

  Heart, White, Dying

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.

  Tina Fey

  Men, Halfway There, Play

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• I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

  Joss Whedon

  Work, Gun, Years

  "Joss Whedon on his marijuana habits, 'Twilight' copying 'Buffy'" by Terri Schwartz, screenertv.com. September 24, 2013.

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• What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Expression, Years, Tree

  Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.167, Hachette UK

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• The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

  Jackson Pollock

  Arriving, Painting, States

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• 'Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I dont even know why - suddenly straight.

  Tessa Thompson

  Jobs, Character, Mars

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in opposite directions?' she asked.I nodded mutely.'That's a bit what giving birth is like.

  Marian Keyes

  Cowboy, Opposites, Two

  Marian Keyes (2009). “Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities”, p.110, Zondervan

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• When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Positive, Education

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• The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

  Pete Townshend

  Music, Mind, Opening

  "Pop Chronicles", Show 23, digital.library.unt.edu. May 02, 1968.

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• I set a personal record on Christmas. I got my shopping done three weeks ahead of time. I had all the presents back at my apartment, I was halfway through wrapping them, and I realized, 'Damn, I used the wrong wrapping paper.' The paper I used said, 'Happy Birthday.' I didn't want to waste it, so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Christmas, Jesus

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• We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dream, Reading, Mind

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

  Iain Banks

  Thinking, Stupidity, Idiot

  "Consider Phlebas" by Iain Banks, Orbit Books paperback edition, (p. 27), 1987.

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