Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
Montesquieu
LunchParisHalfOtherSupper
The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.
Robert Fortune
FeetTwoHighSystemHalfFoot
When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.
Caroline Corr
CrazyThoughtMadHalfDrumming
Historically, grizzlies ranged from Alaska to Mexico, with at least 50,000 bears living in the western half of the contiguous United States. With European colonization, the bears were shot, poisoned, and trapped to the brink of extinction.
Lydia Millet
LivingTrappedAlaskaMexicoHalf
Midfielders, on average, get somewhere between half a second and a second to think before they have to move the ball on. For strikers, however, it is significantly less: between 0.1 and 0.2 of a second before a defender is on them.
Robin Van Persie
ThinkBallAverageSomewhereHalf
I'm somebody who has a military background, grew up in Colorado Springs, and has been a Colorado resident basically since I was two and a half.
Darryl Glenn
ColoradoMilitaryTwoUpHalfBeen
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
Leigh Hunt
ManPersonSeriousCheerfulHalf
It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.
Roland Gift
LightBetterLongBurnHalfThan
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
MarriageEyesOpenHalfKeepYour
It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.
Kurt Eichenwald
AmericanCountryMoreUpHalfThan
In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.
Mary Quant
FashionFirstHalfEnglishCentury
Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.
Ben Hecht
MoviesMoreTwoHalfThanWeeks
Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats and still keep a modest carbon footprint? I don't think so.
Julie Burchill
ThinkMoreSheTribeHalfDozen
Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.
Michael Sims
LoveGossipHuntingAntiqueHalf
Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
BaseballMentalHalfPercentOther
I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.
James Mercer
SlowMoreWritePrettyThingsHalf
I'm too old to do things by half.
Lou Reed
OldThingsHalfToo
I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
Walt Mossberg
DayMoreHalfCutLaptopiPad
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Horace
BeginningDoneHalfWhoMadeHe
I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don't have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.
Josh Young
TeacherDayMeVoiceExerciseHalf
I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
Taylour Paige
FamilyKnowHappenSideHalfWest
I work out two, two and a half hours a day.
Henry Cavill
WorkDayTwoOutHalfWork Out
For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.
Jason Mraz
GoodMeWeirdCreateWriteHalf
I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.
Randeep Hooda
MindStageNakedHalfGoingRole
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