Other Half Quotes - Page 12

• A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other dishevelled, bespectacled writers. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hate, Glasses, Hair

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• The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Men, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

  James Richardson

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  "Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays". Book by James Richardson, 2001.

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• Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.

  Jim Palmer

  Half, Made, Dies

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• Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

  Gloria Steinem

  Race, Half, Show Me

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• A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

  P. L. Travers

  Art, Book, Writing

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• Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

  Andy Rooney

  Food, Cooking, Half

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• In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

  Dean Koontz

  Night, Light, Giving

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• Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Truth, Foam

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.

  Peter Dobereiner

  Fun, Golf, Half

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• Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Funny, Life

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• Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

  Roseanne Barr

  Trying, Half, World

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• It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

  Socrates

  Health, Men, Long

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• And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Engineering, Choices, Training

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• Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

  John Milton

  Soul, Half, Claims

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument]”

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• What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.

  Haruki Murakami

  Giving Up, Cat, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 16, 2011

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