Half Assed Quotes

#1. If I were to ever have a full-fledged vocation, as opposed to a half-assed avocation, I needed to love it and, in my experience, it isn't always easy to figure out what you love.

Marisa De Los Santos

#2. Please, Decker, nothing says I-can't-be-bothered-trying like a bunch of flowers and a half-assed apology.

Kirsty Dallas

#3. The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.

Richard Yates

#4. Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

PZ Myers

#5. Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than have syntax. Or semicolons. I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after "semicolons," and another one after "now." And

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. Don't waste your death on a half assed life

Nikki Sixx

#7. I figured maybe I had some talent as an investor ... since it seemed like I was only a half-assed entrepreneur.

Dave McClure

#8. One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#9. That evil wasn't glamorous, but just the result of ordinary half-assed badness, high school badness, given enough room, however that might happen, to become its bigger self. Bigger, with more horrible results, but never more than the cumulative weight of ordinary human baseness.

William Gibson

#10. I touched his hand, carefully. Not too intimate, but not some half-assed there-there pat, either. Would he understand? Usually the thought process for a seventeen-year-old boy went girl touching me>omg>boner.

Leah Raeder

#11. there, but it was some half-assed firework or

James Patterson

#12. He just laughs, that deep, boisterous laugh that seems to come from the center of his soul, because Blake doesn't do anything half-assed. He laughs the way he lives his life - loud and fierce and without inhibition. He fucks that way, too.

Sarina Bowen

#13. As distasteful as it is to decline your invitation, I'm afraid that it is preferable to attending yet another half-assed weekend eating gunky canapes in that cesspool of a shack you call a beach cottage.

A.C. Kemp

#14. Kelly held up a finger. "No half-assed middle school kissing, either."
"Okay."
"I want the whole deal."
"This is starting to feel like I'm leasing a car or something."
"I'm serious, I want the Irish special."
Nick rolled his eyes and looked up at the ceiling. "Fine. Jesus.

Abigail Roux

#15. Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on."
The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly.
"What?"
"Screw that. Wash your mouth out. Who taught you that half-assed existential drivel?

Armistead Maupin

#16. Almost nobody's competent, Paul. It's enough to make you cry to see how bad most people are at their jobs. If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. There are a lot of shots in golf I can't hit, but I try to hit them anyway. The frustration is not there, because I'm still learning. But I really know how to do this. I'm not just hoping to get it where I want it ... Let the other guys do it half-assed.

Greg Maddux

#18. The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#19. Lovecraft was an atheist. Edgar Allan Poe was sort of a half-assed transcendentalist. And Hawthorne was only conventionally religious.

Stephen King

#20. What kind of half-assed apocalypse are they running down there?" Amos said. "Give 'em a break. It's their first.

James S.A. Corey

#21. It's a terrible thing to have my life depend on my half-assed handiwork.

Andy Weir

#22. Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience.

Vernor Vinge

#23. If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.

Homer

#24. Look, I know this seems a little half-assed ... ' 'No, dude. I'd be thrilled if this plan were half-assed. This is, like, no-assed.' 'You're right. It's the most no-assed thing I've ever done in my life.

Libba Bray

#25. I saw soda pop for $1.20 a six pack. That price messes with your head. You start thinking you're gonna sell soda pop. Suddenly I've got packs of pop with me. "Looking to buy some pop? 50 cents a can. It's not refrigerated because this is a half-assed commitment!"

Mitch Hedberg

#26. I was brought up on a ranch but, because of my father, the romance of guns had somehow escaped me. In his eyes, a gun was a tool, not some half-assed deity. Guys who named their guns worried him and me. I

Craig Johnson

#27. Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

Stefan G. Bucher

#28. In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way it has always been. Some half-assed ambiguity masquerading as mystery is all anybody's really looking for.

Paul Neilan

#29. I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#30. Chief security officer on an OPA ship was a half-assed kind of position, one part cop, one part efficiency expert, and pretty much all den mother to a crew of a thousand people with their own agendas and petty power struggles and opinions on how he should be doing his job better.

James S.A. Corey

#31. You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

David Heinemeier Hansson

#32. If you're a thorough professional, and they won't let you do a professional job, nobody's going to benefit from it. The people who produce it won't benefit. The people who buy it won't benefit from it. They're going to get a half-assed product.

Jack Kirby

#33. If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Kurt Vonnegut

#34. Half, Not Half-Assed

37 Signals

#35. These new groups would act as the privatized auxiliary force Rove had been dreaming of for years. Rove told the moneymen, "People call us a vast right-wing conspiracy, but we're really a half-assed right-wing conspiracy. Now," he emphasized, "it's time to get serious.

Jane Mayer

#36. I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

Kirstie Alley