Top 97 Quotes About Halfway There
#1. When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling ... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony ... I go to great pains to mask the agony. But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy.
Richard Diebenkorn
#2. I could fall in love with you so easily. I'm halfway there already. You're so perfect in my memory, and you're perfect now. It's like I dreamed you into being. Of all the boys, you're the one I would pick.
Jenny Han
#4. This bridge will take you halfway there - the last few steps you will have to take yourself.
Shel Silverstein
#5. I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?
Colleen Haskell
#6. Comas, unconsciousness, and even sleep are about halfway there. Halfway will get you a chance to wade in the Stygian darkness that is the Great Beyond.
C.T. Phipps
#7. In the moments when I feel like being truly happy is an impossible puzzle, one I'm not meant to figure out, if you have a best friend you can laugh with and a few good songs you're more than halfway there.
Emery Lord
#8. What's wrong with you, Daniel? How can you laugh about these things? And I'm like, 'Cause crying only gets you halfway there, duh.
Cara Hoffman
#9. Anything is possible for she who believes. Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Jeanette Coron
#10. And then I got to my feet and stumbled toward the door again. And got halfway there before I realized I was naked. Of course I am, I thought angrily, and went back to the bed for a sheet. God forbid I actually wake up dressed anymore.
Karen Chance
#11. Believe you can and you're halfway there. Believe you can't and you won't. It's that simple.
Elle Alexander
#13. They caught hands again, and walked toward the water's edge, two small figures against the black waves. Only halfway there, one of them must have remembered again and it passed like a fresh current of joy between them. They stood at the water's edge, not letting go, and rocked with laughter.
Rachel Joyce
#14. Believe you can and you will be halfway there.
Lolly Daskal
#15. One thing that I don't know if people have come to grips with yet is just how serious ISIS is, just how serious militant Islamists are about Sharia. There is no compromise. There is no halfway. There is no mutual cohabitation plan.
Rush Limbaugh
#16. Boggs quickly examines my face, then scoops me up and jogs for the runway. Halfway there, I puke on his bulletproof vest. It's hard to tell because he's short of breath, but I think he sighs.
Suzanne Collins
#17. It's a funny old world. Once you realize that, you're halfway there.
Maeve Binchy
#18. We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.
Tim Winton
#19. That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.
Alan Vega
#22. The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
Ian Holm
#24. I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in.
Chic Murray
#25. If you can imagine it, you're halfway there
Pete Hautman
#26. When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.
Frances Hesselbein
#27. In boxing, if you think you will lose..you're already halfway there.
Lennox Lewis
#28. Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!
Don Ward
#29. That's the point of Zeno's Paradox, isn't it? Whatever your goal, you're never more than halfway there.
Sam A. Patel
#30. When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.
Tina Fey
#31. You Just scared me half to death," I said.
"You should be thrilled you're halfway there.
Rae Hachton
#32. The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.
Ruth Reichl
#34. Brian, Roger thought with a crazy smile. You bastard. Go on and become a better man. You're halfway there already. I'll see you soon, dammit.
Brad Vance
#35. To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there
John Steinbeck
#36. Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
David Zucker
#37. Dying isn't so daunting a prospect when you're halfway there ...
Kresley Cole
#38. We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
Eddie Van Halen
#41. There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin.
Trip Lee
#42. No means no. I don't care when you say it, Lily. Once it's out there, it's out there. Any halfway decent guy would have backed off.
Krista Ritchie
#43. 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
#44. Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that.
We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough ...
Charles Bukowski
#45. Mean, if you start a book and a couple of chapters in you decide you just aren't into it that's one thing, but once you reach the halfway point, there's no turning back. You're obligated.
Kim Holden
#46. In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: 'What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?' At that time you have to say: 'OK, forget that and just go ahead.'
Clint Eastwood
#47. Is there anything you can't do? I ask, only halfway joking. She considers. There are plenty of things I've never done. Fly a plane. Speak Chinese. But nothing I can think of that I couldn't learn or find a way around.
Amy Plum
#48. Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.
Brandi Carlile
#49. There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in.
Mordecai Ham
#50. The wall is a place to keep track of thoughts, as fast as they come, and remember them when they go away. Anything interesting or weird or even halfway inspired goes up there.
Jennifer Niven
#51. There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.
Penn Jillette
#52. There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.
Abraham Foxman
#53. There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that "he's not reading." And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along.
Ang Lee
#54. No, there was only one reason I was so fucking distracted that even a halfway decent blowjob was doing nothing for me. And that reason was wrapped up in a gorgeous 6'2 package of hard muscle, a lazy, killer smile and the most intense blue eyes I'd ever seen. That
Sloane Kennedy
#55. I don't get it. There's nothing here. Send your invasion force halfway across the galaxy so they can build a five star ski resort? That's crazy.
Peter F. Hamilton
#56. With moviemaking, you can be halfway around the world for six months. So there are amazing benefits to doing TV, and with the platform change and the way it is, I would never ever rule out doing TV.
Chris Pratt
#57. There were times when rehab and the halfway house were very, very tough, but I never felt that I wanted to leave.
Trinny Woodall
#58. I will always be there. I will walk across the whole planet if I have to."
I closed my eyes and whispered, "I'll meet you halfway.
Ilona Andrews
#59. The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely
Jackson Pollock
#60. Halfway through his reclusion, Arredondo experienced more than once that almost timeless time. In the first of the house's three patios there was cistern with a frog in it. It never occurred to Arredondo to think that the frog's time, which borders on eternity, was what he himself sought.
Jorge Luis Borges
#61. I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses of covert surveillance. I suspect that emails will be the next scandal. And devices that track people moving around. That's just starting to come out.
Tom A. Watson
#62. There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
Eugene Ionesco
#63. His job was to make sense of the world and there were times that he wished the world would meet him halfway.
Terry Pratchett
#64. Is there a way to choose a few things and do them well rather than do a lot of things halfway or not at all? Can we accept the fact that we may be in a season when we need to say no with the understanding that the season will not last forever?
Stephen W. Smith
#65. He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.
Don DeLillo
#66. Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing what's out there to begin with.
Phil Anselmo
#67. One day I locked my keys in my car and as I was standing there with a hanger halfway through the top of my window, a guy walks up and says, Lock yer keys in the car? Without missin' a beat I said, Nope, Just washed it and was hanging it up to dry. Here's your sign.
Bill Engvall
#68. It is romantic, you know, the transatlantic telephone. To speak so easily to someone nearly halfway across the globe. The telegraphed photograph - that, too, is romantic. Science is the greatest romance there is.
Agatha Christie
#69. We're, ah, taking a break to evaluate things, and, um, reexamine our relationship, so I stuffed him in a closet! I burst out in shame. Timmie's eyes goggled.
Is he still there?
Jeaniene Frost
#70. The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.
Babatunde Adebimpe
#71. The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Michael Pollan
#72. Instead of crushing them and mixing them with water, she decided to take them one by one, because there is always a gap between intention and action, and she wanted to feel free to turn back halfway.
Paulo Coelho
#73. At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.
Sherman Alexie
#74. I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.
James McAvoy
#75. They're my ladies," she'd tell Bails and me. "Halfway between here and there.
Jandy Nelson
#76. Often there is no more than a little plaque to reveal that, against all gynaecological probability, someone very famous was born halfway up a wall.
Terry Pratchett
#77. On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.
Fernando Pessoa
#78. I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that perhaps, after all, there is more life in me than in you.
Michael Finkel
#79. money. Halfway through that fifth grade year there was no money out on anyone's desk.
Barthe DeClements
#80. The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.
James Lovelock
#81. When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner.
Janet Evanovich
#82. Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
Janis Ian
#83. I was halfway up the stairs when the doorbell rang. "Dash it all!" I said. There was nothing I hated more than being interrupted when I was about to do something gratifying with chemicals.
Alan Bradley
#84. A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.
Henry Beard
#85. Here the dialogue form breaks down. From the believer's mouth there emerges what can only be called a soup of words, sentences that begin and do not end, words that change into something else halfway. This goes on for a longer or shorter time.
Frank Sheed
#86. Halfway up the drive there was
God these tedious details.
Halfway up there was a ...
John Banville
#87. It's always important to draw a line somewhere in a respectful way where you're still approachable, you're still there for the people and meeting them halfway, but you're not neglecting your own duties and your own time to rejuvenate to be able to do it again.
Chuck Ragan
#88. Morse firmly believed that there was nothing so unsatisfactory as this kind of halfway house pornography; he liked it hot or not at all.
Colin Dexter
#89. I do believe that you can never know yourself let alone the person next to you let alone the person halfway across the world. Yet at the same time I believe there is nothing like fiction to fully thrust you into someone else s consciousness.
Nam Le
#90. Many cultures accept the faulty nature of memory. They know even the photograph only gets it halfway right. They believe there is only one way to bring the dead back to life, story.
Jon Chopan
#91. [Optimism] is not about providing a recipe for self-deception. The world can be a horrible, cruel place, and at the same time it can be wonderful and abundant. These are both truths. There is not a halfway point; there is only choosing which truth to put in your personal foreground.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#92. He sat looking at her. She waited to see the derisive smile, but it did not come. The smile seemed implicit in the room itself, in her standing there, halfway across that room.
Ayn Rand
#93. I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.
Adrian Tomine
#94. There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story.
Jeaniene Frost
#95. Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.
William Safire
#96. The van's driver hung halfway out of the cab window, head down, arms dangling. There was a fan of dried blood and puke sprayed out below him on the door.
Stephen King
#97. As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.
Howard Keel
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