The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or
half-buried, by the life.
View quotes by Julian BarnesSome people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
View quotes by Benjamin FranklinStories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice
View quotes by James Russell LowellIt is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
View quotes by Winston ChurchillI always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
View quotes by Althea GibsonI believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free
View quotes by Abraham LincolnDemocracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
View quotes by E B WhiteHalf the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
View quotes by Lionel BarrymoreThe one who wins the top half will win the tournament [on US Open 2007, Henin won from the top half]
View quotes by Marion BartoliThe second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
View quotes by Fedor DostoevskyMy mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.
View quotes by Rita RudnerI buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
View quotes by Phyllis DillerI want to be buried with Monkey. The thought of anybody else working with him would be too much.
View quotes by Johnny VegasBetter a living beggar than a buried emperor
View quotes by Jean De La FontaineBeing buried alive [greatest fear].
View quotes by Brenda BlethynThere's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
View quotes by Norman MailerIt has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
View quotes by Neil GaimanWe knew at half-time we were only half-way there [on drawing 0-0 with Germany!]
View quotes by Simon DaviesI won't be able to stop the drinking just like that but I've hopefully cut it in half and if you cut what I drink in half that is a hell of a lot.
View quotes by Andy FordhamThe first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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