Half Hours Quotes - Page 7

• When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.

  Francis Spellman

  Life, Wisdom, Advice

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• If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Community, Half

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• I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

  Jackie Cooper

  Dying, Half, Mediocrity

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• If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

  Mike McDermott

  Half, Tables, Firsts

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• She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

  Jane Austen

  Sweet, Time, Autumn

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• I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

  May Sarton

  Beautiful, Diaries, Half

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• No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Serenity, Needs, Half

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• I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Sleep, Butterfly

  William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill (2000). “The Major Works”, p.254, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I train for one-and-a-half hours every day in order to keep my energy level high.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Order, Energy, Half

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• There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

  Mary Catherwood

  Inspirational, Half, Hours

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.105, tredition

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• As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in mind.

  John Cooper Clarke

  Mind, Half, Next

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• We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

  Amy Tan

  People, Half, Firsts

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• One night I was in the players' parking lot at the Fleet Center in my Celtics warm-ups about a half hour before a game, waiting for one of my dealers to come up from Fall River, because if I didn't get my stuff I was too sick to even go through the pre-game layup line, never mind actually play in the game.

  Chris Herren

  Fall, Player, Night

  Chris Herren, Bill Reynolds (2011). “Basketball Junkie: A Memoir”, p.174, Macmillan

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• Big night of television tonight for Barack Obama. Earlier tonight, Barack Obama aired a half-hour infomercial to attract more voters. Yeah. Yeah, and apparently, if you watched the entire infomercial, Barack threw in a free set of Ginsu knives for you.

  Conan O'Brien

  Night, Knives, Television

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• I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

  Matt LeBlanc

  People, Tolls, Half

  "Matt LeBlanc flies solo". "Dateline" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. May 5, 2004.

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• I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.

  Henry Cavill

  Art, Two, Body Weight

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• You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.

  Sam Donaldson

  Sweet, Water, Waiting

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• They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Air, Half, Body

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• I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen. I literally was genuinely thinking 'Well, maybe this is a time loop.'

  Jane Espenson

  Thinking, Doctors, Two

  "Loopy". BBC Interview, bbc.adactio.com. 2002.

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• It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Feelings

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• I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half hour to eat it outside. Ironing my vintage tea towels while watching old black-and-white film noir movies and sipping one martini with extra olives - a quirky combination, but it works.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Grateful, Black And White, Tuna Fish

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  I'm late to everything. I've always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half hour late and says on the side, like in gold, 'Sorry I'm Late'.

  Axl Rose

  Sorry, Gold, Coffins

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• So where did these cravings come from? I concluded it's the baby ordering in. Prenatal takeout. Even without ever being in a restaurant, fetuses develop remarkably discerning palates, and they are not shy about demanding what they want. If they get a hankering, they just pick up the umbilical cord and call. 'You know what would taste good right now? A cheeseburger, large fries, and a vanilla shake. And if you could, hurry it up, because I'm supposed to grow a lung in a half hour.'

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Half, Want

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• For recovery, I think it's a big deal to eat within a half-hour after you exercise. Otherwise I just try to put carbs into my system before I swim and then load up on the protein after. I don't count calories. Whether it's Sour Patch Kids or Reese's or a bag of chips, if I feel like eating it, I'm going to eat it.

  Michael Phelps

  Recovery, Kids, Exercise

  "Olympic Champ Michael Phelps Bares Chest on Cover of 'Details': The 27-year-old gold medalist hopes to make a big splash in London". Details Magazine Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 10, 2012.

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• At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

  Denise Van Outen

  Weekend, Long, Half

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