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"The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers."
"Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory."
"There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman."
"Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind."
"They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly."
"In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me."
"I train for about an hour five days a week and feel I'm in the best shape I've ever been. I can eat what I want and that includes scoffing half a big bar of Cadbury's a day."
"Was the Buffalo chicken wing invented when Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-cheese dressing? Was it invented when John Young started using mambo sauce and thought of elevating wings into a specialty?"
"Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?""
"There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them."
"We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man."
"We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal"
"For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state."
"I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly."
"I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half."
"Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles."
"Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it."
"If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child."
"How come, when people wear half shirts, it's always the top half?"
"When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves."
