Halfway Home Quotes

#1. Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.

Phyllis Diller

#2. Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

Janis Ian

#3. In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

Len Wein

#4. Did you have fun? How many boys did you make out with?" She asks. "Seventy. At least." "How many shots did you take?" "Fourteen. I let go of the wheel halfway home and Jesus drove me the rest of the way.

Sara Wolf

#5. It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.

William H. Macy

#6. It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Lev Grossman

#7. Success is for those who are persistent in the face of reality. The harsher the truth, the stronger they hold on to their dreams.

Pooja Ruprell

#8. She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?

J.K. Rowling

#9. But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin And can't stand the company. Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself And turn his heart to stone. Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home.

Bruce Springsteen

#10. The unassuming inconspicuous halfway time between tomorrow and today, those slow frozen hours in-between, they're something of a comfort to the drunk rolling home.

Jonny Glynn

#11. I have nothing I ever wanted, after I had everything.

Al Sarrantonio

#12. My mom always wanted to go to Maryland to live there. Baltimore, actually. She had a best friend who lived there. She kept saying that she was going to move there and make that her home, but she only made it halfway across the country and got stuck in Iowa.

Vonda Shepard

#13. Punctuality was not Susan's strength. She always intended to be on time, but she seemed to have some kind of chronometric dyslexia, which thwarted her intent, nearly always.

Robert B. Parker

#14. Aey mauj-e-bala unko bhi zara do char thapede halke se Kuchh log abhi tak sahil se toofan ka nazara karte hain (Loosely translated, the couplet means: O wave of calamity, strike those lightly who even now merely watch the storm from the safety of the shore.)

I.K. Gujral

#15. That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal.

Herb Ritts

#16. I know someone who has never been able to read _The Cuckoo Clock_ since leaving her girlhood home, because it had to be read sitting halfway up the stairs, where the light through a stained-glass landing window fell on it, staining the pages red and blue and green.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#17. Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Jim Bouton

#18. I wil not calm down. My baby girl is moving halfway across the country."
"She's been moved away before," Dad pointed out.
"Yeah, but that was with Billy. We all knew he wouldn't work out. We're talking about Hank here. Look at him," she pointed to Hank.
"She's never coming home. Never.

Kristen Ashley

#19. You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

Guillermo Del Toro

#20. I wasn't the demonstrative type. I didn't say I love you all the time, and I wasn't girlish or giggly. I hated shopping in pairs and preferred staying home with a good romance novel than a girls' night out. But I figured sometimes you have to meet someone halfway.

C.D. Reiss