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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.


Barbara Streisand

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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
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CHARLES GIVENS Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum w...
CHARLES J. GIVENS Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
BUM PHILLIPS Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try
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KELLY JONES Always wanted to go to Germany... probably one of my top ten.
CRAIG ROBINSON Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants
ROALD DAHL The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned w...
JUDITH VIORST But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned w...
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UNKNOWN No one makes it to the "top" by themselves. Each step you take is guided by at least one person's bl...
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SINCLAIR LEWIS Amelia, meet my Honeydew.
ALEXANDRA IFF The night before Tilbury, the Cordon Bleu gourmet dinner turned out Cordon Brown. Six out of ten to ...
SPIKE MILLIGAN The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
NAPOLEON HILL This would be like sitting down at dinner and eating only vitamins instead of having a meal.
STEVE LUX Cucumbers are technically a fruit and in the same family as pumpkins, melons and squash, so it may b...
JASPER FFORDE It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
DON DELILLO How montonous the sounds of the forest would be if the music came only from the Top Ten birds.
DAN BENNETT Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around...
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GEORGE COHEN Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
MARY WILSON LITTLE Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think that success is having fun.
BRUNO MARS Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
JON BON JOVI Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
KEHLANI It's not eating half a hamburger, half a bag of french fries and half a sugared beverage.
LUIGI FONTANA A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...
EMILY BRONTë Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford l...
DALEY THOMPSON Success to me is being together as brothers and still looking out for each other.
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GWENN WRIGHT Top Ten lists make me insane. I just know they're going to change daily.
BILL HADER Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
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LIZZIE ARMITSTEAD Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with ...
MORIHEI UESHIBA If there was an eight (magnitude earthquake) on the New Madrid fault, there would maybe be partial c...
AMR ELNASHAI A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...
EMILY BRONTE There are no real surprises on the schedule. Every year the Big Ten is one of the most competitive c...
MATT PAINTER This is only half the story. Nokia is clearly having good volumes. Now we need to see what the margi...
DAMIEN CHEW In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The probl...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
JOHN C. MAXWELL We started each half missing a wide-open lay-up, and that kind of set the tone. My top three scorers...
DEAN MONTZINGO I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.
DAVID SEDARIS A rebel. That was me when I was younger. What was a rebel from New Jersey? A rebel was moving to the...
JUDITH VIORST I like and respect each one of them, but for me one candidate rose to the top as our best shot to be...
TOM HARKIN They are one of the top teams in the league and they showed it in the second half.
TIM BARRETT He is very active and very energetic for having only half a heart. He's always happy.
JENN CASTLETON The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR. One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for...
LAURIE COLWIN Well, what do you want me to say?' The Doctor was so angry he was almost hovering. 'Well done on mar...
JAMES GOSS Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
NOVALIS You are heading towards the top if you raise the bar of your standards inch by inch each hour! There...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't affo...
DALEY THOMPSON Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.
CLAUDE MERMET The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level...
TERRELL DAVIS A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the o...
EMILY BRONTE Having a home, husband, and child ought to be enough for any woman's life. I mean, that's what we ar...
INGRID BERGMAN Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
HENRY KISSINGER Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
HENRY KISSINGER The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, come forward!
KEN ROSATO The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individuall...
WALTER ULBRICHT The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
JOAN BAEZ Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA I have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Rat...
JOHN LASSETER I've worked with people at different stages of their careers and different success levels, and o...
SHAWN ROBERTS I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.
HENNY YOUNGMAN We are delighted to be recognized by Training Magazine as one of the top ten companies on the Traini...
MIKE HAMILTON Having three boys and one girl after only having one bowler qualify last season is great for the sch...
CHRIS CHERRY He's one of those American success stories, and that's why I hope his career will end way at the top...
GREG BLACHE To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaki...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Eve...
OG MANDINO The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
HARVEY S. FIRESTONE There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The collection has been recognized by experts in the field as one of the top ten historical architec...
DENEEN BRANNOCK Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your c...
VINCE GILL And that the half-second she is gifted before she remembers the truth is the only reason she gets up...
JODI PICOULT In my downtime, I love eating. It's pretty much my favorite hobby. Discovering new restaurants a...
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BARBARA ROSENBLAT Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
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BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
BARBARA PARK Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
BARBARA PARK I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ...
BARBARA PARK I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr...
BARBARA PARK I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
BARBARA PARK There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus...
BARBARA PARK I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f...
BARBARA PARK For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of...
BARBARA PARK In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ...
BARBARA OLSON