For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.
Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.
My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.
Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
Remember, half the people you know are below average.
London is like a dream come true. As I ramble through it I am haunted by the curious feeling of something half-forgotten, but still dimly remembered, like a reminiscence of some previous state of existence. It is at once familiar and strange.
Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
You've a very important, early decision to make in your life: are you going to be alone, or are you going to be with somebody else? Are you going to be sane, or not lonely? A couple is a strange thing; it's an organism that's half as intelligent as the most intelligent member. And you both know who it is.
I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.
The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.
Here there be monster. " Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already!
I'm a person of my own opinions, that's how I was raised. I speak what I feel. . . A lot of people feel the same way but they're scared to talk. They're really scared of the truth - they only want half of the truth. I've been living like that - forever in fear - but I know what to say and how to say it now. I ain't scared of myself. Y'all may be scared; I'm not scared.
At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number. . . is $1. 2 trillion.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
I grew up in that minority. I grew up in the South, in Roswell, Georgia, and it was heavily white, Baptist, conservative. And the idea that somebody would come there and say those things that I said created an atmosphere where some people would walk out, and suddenly they weren't in the minority. For an hour and a half, they were the majority. So I would argue that it does need to be said.
Half of my life I’ve had people staring at me because they think I’m funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life I’ve had people staring at me because they think I’m fascinating. Everything neutralises
In Britain, we have an open door to half a billion people. We still retain the ability to decide who comes from the rest of the world. But we've effectively shut down the rest of the world because 4,000 people a week are coming from the E. U.