#half

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#civil war #day #five #good #good day

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#bad #because #check #day #end

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half. ↗

— Uri Geller

#bent #broke #eating #five #half

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about. ↗

— William Glasser

#about #allowed #any #asked #being

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#half #i #just #money #only

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#book #each #focus #halfway #having

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #boats #doing #half

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. ↗

— Phil Gramm

#does #half #joys #know #underwear

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough. ↗

— Lori Greiner

#doing #done #enough #fast #getting

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener. ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#because #else #even #fantasy #fiction