Half In The Bag Quotes

#1. All this and the wine's coming in and out, and by the time the waiters set the espressos down Callan's about half in the bag. He watches Calabrese take a long sip from an espresso cup. Then the boss says, "Tell me why I shouldn't kill you."
One motherfuck of an essay question.

Don Winslow

#2. I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial.

Joan Rivers

#3. Men strolled through life with a wallet in their pants, and women were saddled with children, the map, the bag, the half-empty water bottles. Resentment

Janice Y.K. Lee

#4. Seeing women on television was very important to me. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of women's sports. It showed me what I could do and who I could be.

Jennie Finch

#5. Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can only write in one specific place. I'm in New York half the time and Texas half the time, and I work wherever - in my computer bag I have some foam ear plugs that I can put in.

Philipp Meyer

#6. Never trust a woman hoarding a half-eaten bag of M&M's.

K.D. Harp

#7. She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation, she'd been told. They took half your stomach out and fitted you up with a plastic bag. Better a semicolon than a full stop, some might say.

Helen Hodgman

#8. Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you've half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you're doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

Patricia Marx

#10. When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them.

Hugh Latimer

#11. I would love to see a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' I'd love to see that! I don't know that I would be in it. I may be a little long in the tooth to play 'The Rocketeer.' But I would love to be a part of that in some form or fashion.

Billy Campbell

#12. I walk by, seeing myself walk by on a bag, someone's hands gripping the paper handles above my neck, my curved waist, my gleam of sweat, me, half a block away, and think, you don't know self-fragmentation until it's staring you in the face.

Chris Campanioni

#13. By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

Martha Gellhorn

#14. On Pembroke Road look out for my ghost, Dishevelled with shoes untied, Playing through the railings with little children Whose children have long since died.

Richard Heinzl

#15. The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

John Sherman Cooper

#16. If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.

George Dzundza

#17. You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission of sins and getting of the Holy Ghost. Baptism by water is but half a baptism, and is good for nothing without the other half-that is, baptism of the Holy Ghost.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#18. We are all wonderful souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

John Steinbeck

#20. I like my kahva the way I like my women... hot and black."

"I like my kahva the way I like my men," she replied, her eyes half-lidded. "Ground up into tiny pieces and stored in a bag.

Patrick Weekes

#21. In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

Ron Wyden