Halfway Quotes - Page 8

• I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Comfort, Looks, Alive

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• I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.

  Ewan McGregor

  Years, Firsts, Collars

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• I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.

  Justin Cronin

  Country, Jobs, Moving

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• The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.

  James Lovelock

  Climate, Usual, World

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• I got halfway through 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.' I don't get it at all. What's the big thrill? It's boring.

  Elmore Leonard

  Tattoo, Girl, Dragons

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• But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

  Mos Def

  Creeps, Decent, Deserve

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• Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

  John Lasseter

  Waiting, Tape, Saws

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• I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.

  Bear Grylls

  Rocks, Tea, Faces

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• I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by their religion, so I was going to these halfway education-slash-Christian schools that were like pop-up shop-style education.

  Katy Perry

  Christian, Believe, School

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• There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Stories, Saws, Ends

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Thinking, Islands

  "This much I know". Interview with Hilly Janes, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2003.

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• You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.

  Barry Hannah

  Lying

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• I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 136

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• It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS, NO SURVIVORS!" in a manner that could only indicate deadly sincerity. It was seeing him happily burning and advancing that startled the Brute Squad to screaming. And once that happened, why, everybody panicked and ran.

  William Goldman

  Flames, Squad, Giants

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.337, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. ‘Yes, I see, dear; it’s about half-way between,’ Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility.

  E. M. Forster

  Aunt, Years, Secret

  E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.861, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.

  Sherman Alexie

  Night, Maps, Realizing

  Sherman Alexie (1993). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, Harper Perennial

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• The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mean, Angel, Police

  Arlen (CON) Ness, Michael Dregni, Evel Knievel, Jean (FRW) Davidson, Sonny Barger, Hunter S. (CON) Thompson “The Harley-Davidson Reader”

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• Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

  John Bonham

  Wall, Bricks, Sometimes

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• I love you. You have no idea what you are worth to me.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Love You, Ideas, No Idea

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• Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Book, Events, Sequels

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.303, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I read that book Fat is a Feminist issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

  Jo Brand

  Book, Issues, Feminist

  "Jo Brand: fat jokes matter". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2011.

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• There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

  Penn Jillette

  God Is Dead

  "God Is Not. Great!". Interview with Nick Gillespie, reason.com. April, 2012.

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• I had a dream this morning too, and you were in it," he said. "I don't remember what it was about, exactly, but when I woke up I looked at the clock and it was exactly six thirty-two." I felt an eerie tingle all down my back and froze with my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Really?" He smirked and popped the cookie into his mouth. "No

  Kate Brian

  Dream, Morning, Eerie

  Kate Brian (2013). “The Complete Private Collection: Private; Invitation Only; Untouchable; Confessions; Inner Circle; Legacy; Ambition; Revelation; Last Christmas; Paradise Lost; Suspicion; Scandal; Vanished; The Book of Spells; Ominous; Vengeance”, p.2951, Simon and Schuster

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• The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Funny, Thinking, Lines

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

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• Papa, do you like my new friend?" Frances Catherine asked when they were halfway across the field. "I surely do." "Can I keep her?" "For the love of...No, you can't keep her. She isn't a puppy. You can be her friend, though," he hastily added before his daughter could argue with him. "Forever, papa?" She 'd asked her father that question, but Judith answered her. "Forever," she shyly whispered. Frances Catherine reached across her father's chest to take hold of Judith's hand. "Forever," she pledged.

  Julie Garwood

  Daughter, Father, Hands

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