#half

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#basically #because #currently #great #half

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#half #hunt #life #manageable #more

A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#blonde #death #evidence #eyes #four

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#believe #come #course #discredit #fit

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#anything #area #audience #discrimination #fact

You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be halfway through a movie and think that I know everything that's going to happen, because I hope that I'm wrong. ↗

— Bobby Farrelly

#everything #going #halfway #happen #hope

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#half #half hour #hour #i #know

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember. ↗

— Brett Favre

#believe #cause #eight #even #football

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#condemns #good #half #loudly #moderate