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Gore Vidal

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UNKNOWN One half who graduate from college never read another book.
HERBERT TRUE One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. TREVELYAN A teacher's day is half bureaucracy, half crisis, half monotony and one-eighth epiphany. Never mind ...
SUSAN OHANIAN Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved, Where still so much is said; One half will never be beli...
ROBERT POLLOK Truth is always the sum of two half truths and one never catches them at the same time!
HAROLD J. DUARTE-BERNHARDT A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for ha...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for ...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
EDDIE MONEY You can never tire, never wilt-and become half-tyrant, half-psychiatrist, half-madman, and half-dead...
DIRK BENEDICT Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American...
CYBILL SHEPHERD You have a wide array of people that are watching something, and you cannot please everyone at the s...
DAVID A. R. WHITE Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
EDWARD W. HOWE It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for...
GURDJIEFF A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
DAVID MITCHELL Thank God my hair is always the same. And I get dressed very quickly. I am not one of those people w...
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DAQUAN GIBSON 'Slash' is kind of edgier, a magic show with a lot of gore and blood, people cut in half.
NICK GUEVEL We succeeded in changing the culture of fear. Before the president was half god, half president. Now...
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ROBERT HALF Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to reco...
ROBERT HALF Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to re...
ROBERT HALF Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
ROBERT HALF Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
ROBERT HALF There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to reco...
ROBERT HALF The search for someone to blame is always successful.
ROBERT HALF Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
ROBERT HALF Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It ...
ROBERT HALF Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.
ROBERT HALF There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
ROBERT HALF Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy
ROBERT HALF It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.
ROBERT HALF What happens when the future has come and gone?
ROBERT HALF No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
ROBERT HALF Free advice is worth the price.
ROBERT HALF Time spent on hiring is time well spent.
ROBERT HALF Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.
ROBERT HALF Having respect for your own time will assure respect for the other person's time
ROBERT HALF The combination of hard work and smart work is efficient work
ROBERT HALF When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep striving until I climb over, find a pass th...
ROBERT HALF When the customer comes first, the customer will last
ROBERT HALF Even a boring occupation can be interesting when your goal is to do it better
ROBERT HALF The customer is our reason for being here.
ROBERT HALF When your future arrives, will you blame your past?
ROBERT HALF Aspirations can cure headaches
ROBERT HALF Not admiring a mistake is a bigger mistake.
ROBERT HALF I have a half Lab and half golden retriever named Henry and then the other one, Lucy, is half Akita ...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
BARBARA BUSH You have had seven and one half years of freedom that you never should have had.
RICHARD ALSETH The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows wh...
JIMMY BRESLIN The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows w...
JIMMY BRESLIN I'm not disappointed. I've never seen a group of kids put together a half of basketball like this be...
LEONARD BARNES College football is the sport where 80, 000 people show up to watch a Poll Bowl, half of them wearin...
DAN JENKINS If you expect to reach the goal of perfection, never look at the cup as being half empty, see it as ...
BARBARA HART It was back and forth in the first half and you never knew how it was going to turn out. We just did...
JODY GRAVELIN I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
JOHN ADAMS I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read...
JOHN ADAMS One could argue that at least half of the forest has never been seen before.
CLAES WAHLESTEDT Never meet trouble half-way.
JOHN RAY You live half your age. Half of it is filled with memories. The remaining half, you live for the mem...
EPHDAN Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
AMBROSE BIERCE Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.
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AUGUST WILSON I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half o...
DAMON LINDELOF My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I slee...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD They figure in a sort of musée imaginaire, half Madame Tussaud's, half Smithsonian, of American cri...
F. W. DUPREE I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.
CAMILA ALVES Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
GORE VIDAL While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had...
CHUCK NORRIS The first half was our half. The second half was their half. Fortunately for us, we had the lead and...
CHRIS WATSON Over the next four and one half months, this campaign must challenge the campaigns of the Bush and G...
RALPH NADER I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
GEORGE D. PRENTICE Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
GEORGE D. PRENTICE Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
GEORGE DENNISON PRENTICE Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed t...
ARAVIND ADIGA The first 10 days we were cursed for being sluggish. If the government satisfies half the people, th...
ALWI SHIHAB Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. Mor...
OSCAR WILDE Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the...
JOSH HOMME Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.
LOUIS LEAKEY Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.
ORRIN WOODWARD Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
GEORGES CARPENTIER Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
NOVALIS Half a calamity is better than a whole one
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
IRVING BERLIN Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who hav...
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