#half

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#around #coherent #creating #grown #half-million

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#body #female #found #had #half

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery. ↗

— Red Adair

#always #cemetery #chair #friends #going

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. ↗

— Gracie Allen

#half #i #i was born #surprised #talk

The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile. ↗

— Ted Allen

#best way #cooking #feeling #halfway #learn

If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#cut #deep #edges #frequencies #getting

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time. ↗

— Tori Amos

#half #his #i #interview #journalist

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. ↗

— Tori Amos

#first #half #i #piano #sat

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over. ↗

— Keren Ann

#hour #just #live #many #once

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#forty #half #nearly #past #seventy