Halfway Quotes - Page 17

• A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

  Dion Fortune

  Religious, Atheist, Religion

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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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• I'm much more willing to buy a novel electronically by someone I don't know. Because if halfway through I think, I don't really like this, I can just stop. I can't throw books out, even if I think they're crummy. I feel like I've got to give it to the library. I've got to loan it to somebody, or I keep it on my shelf. It's like a plant.

  Susan Orlean

  Book, Thinking, Giving

  "The Authors' Roundtable". Interview with Jon Meacham, www.newsweek.com. June 26, 2009.

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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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• I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote watershed and then hauled halfway round the world bothers me. Drinking bottled water relieves people of their concern about ecological threats to the river they live by or to the basins of groundwater they live over. It's the same kind of thinking that leads some to the complacent conclusion that if things on earth get bad enough, well, we'll just blast off to a space station somewhere else.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Drinking, Thinking, Rivers

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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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• 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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• But then when I'm in a halfway successful movie, it irritates the hell out of the critics in New York, because they'd like to kill my pictures if they could. So maybe I'm pretty good in the movie. Then they use all these words like I'm 'surprisingly' good, or 'shockingly enough,' I'm good. It's like I crawled out from under a magazine and they're surprised I can act.

  Burt Reynolds

  New York, Successful, Use

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• In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there.

  Lennox Lewis

  Thinking, Halfway There, Boxing

  Lennox Lewis @LennoxLewis, twitter.com. January 07, 2012.

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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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• When I was there at Marvel, everybody thought if you could draw well and you could do sensational panels, that you were going to be a success. The truth is that no matter how good or bad you are as a draftsman, if you can't tell a story, you don't last in comics. ...About halfway through my stay at Marvel, I realized I was being paid to tell a story, not do a drawing. That's why my stuff is always rather simple and uncomplicated compared to a lot of guys.

  John Romita, Sr.

  Book, Simple, Drawing

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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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