Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
Lionel Barrymore
The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law.
Raymond Thornton Chandler
You can have all ego, or all non-ego, but in theory you cannot have half one and half the other yet in practice this is exactly what you must have, for everything is both itself and not itself at one and the same time.
Samuel Butler
To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
Henry James
All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
William Mathews
The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue & you cannot have Moral Virtue without the Slavery of that half of the Human Race who hate what you call Moral Virtue
William Blake
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
John Lancaster Spalding
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
Shared sorrow is half sorrow
Danish Proverb
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Lou Holtz