Half Staff Quotes

#1. Tears were coursing down the faces of Kennedy's moonstruck recruits. John Kennedy had inspired us with his vision. One by one, we left work to grieve in private. The flag was at half-staff in our hearts.

Gene Kranz

#2. Your mother's chili was onions, hamburger, tomato soup, kidney beans, no chili powder, no peppers. Mexican flags flew at half staff every time she made it.

Dennis Vickers

#3. In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.

Michael K. Simpson

#4. I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

Hayao Miyazaki

#5. An aging beau. He has probably tried to screw half his staff and doubtless attributes to his charm the few successes that are simply statistical anomalies.

Pierre Lemaitre

#6. I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself ... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.

Joan Miro

#7. I think I figured out why I don't have more friends. I find dead people more interesting than the living.

Donna Lynn Hope

#8. Damn," I hiss. "I'm sorry to hear about your grandpa." There's so much more I want to say. But there's some invisible barrier there between us created by the years we've spent apart. He

Julie Murphy

#9. Depression is like war. You either win or you die trying. There's no in between.

Kota

#10. This is our life; dreams come true, and dreams stumble, while others dreams remain postponed perpetuity.

Eyden I.

#11. If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice.

John Steinbeck

#12. She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

Charles Dickens

#13. I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

James Woods

#14. I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.

Ranbir Kapoor

#15. Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped onto the sound stage and it was a literal time warp.

Jacob Young

#16. Shit, I forgot. This time of the afternoon the bar's probably shut. Half the staff has gone sick again. Mono, I think. Well, let's go look anyway; we might be lucky. We can't go up to my room
it's full of bugs.'
Which kind?'
Both.

John Brunner

#17. The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s.

Toshihiko Fukui

#18. Hate generalizes; love is particular.

Erica Jong

#19. Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.

Paul De Rapin

#21. I didn't dare put down the staff with Etienne popping in and out like a half-burned, bloodsucking whack-a-mole.

Suzanne Johnson

#22. His staff had shaken hands with her as though a woman was merely another kind of man. Fools! The seeds of Eve were in this radiant creature. The lullabyes of half a million years throbbed in her throat. Had they no sense of wonder, no reverence, no pride?

Mervyn Peake