Quotes about Half an Hour

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed. Votes: 4

Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied. Votes: 3

Half an hour of exercise in the morning makes for better interactions all day. Then a sound night of sleep gives me energy to tackle the next day. I am a more active parent, a better spouse, and more engaged in my work when I eat, move, and sleep well. Votes: 3

Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen, said,"Dr. Franklin, if this were on a woman, we'd know what to think." And Franklin replied,"Half an hour ago, Mademoiselle, it was on a woman, and now what do you think?" Votes: 3

Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations get easier and Heathrow become the world's worst airport? The answer lies not in reality but in appearance. News editors abhor a vacuum. Half an hour of airtime and 10 pages of news must be filled each day, whatever the weather. Votes: 3

I ride a recumbent bike for half an hour every day. Votes: 2

I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place. Votes: 2

Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour. Votes: 2

I'm always exhausted after a show, even if it's just half an hour. Votes: 2

You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent. Votes: 2

He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. Votes: 2

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna. Votes: 2

I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour. Votes: 2

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. Votes: 2

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. Votes: 2

I run a lot. I love running. I try to run at least half an hour a day. Votes: 2

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs. Votes: 2

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers. Votes: 2

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it. Votes: 2

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half. Votes: 2

If I have half an hour to spare, I just have to hit the shops. And I can get overexcited. Votes: 2

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes. Votes: 2

I work out for an hour and a half every day, alternating between cardio and weights. I also do yoga for an hour every alternate day and swim every other day. Votes: 2

I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don't have any superstitious rituals or anything like that. Votes: 2

Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month. Votes: 0

We talked filth for a pleasant half hour. Votes: 0

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream. Votes: 0

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream Votes: 0

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half. Votes: 0

She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour. Votes: 0

In half an hour, I'll know more than you do. Votes: 0

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense. Votes: 0

I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy. Votes: 0

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides. Votes: 0

TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour. Votes: 0

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good. Votes: 0

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. Votes: 0

The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour. Votes: 0

I'm a fan of half-hour shows that can be both funny and dramatic. Votes: 0

A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments. Votes: 0

And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence. Votes: 0

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect. Votes: 0

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. Votes: 0

I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour. Votes: 0

My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.' Votes: 0

Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat. Votes: 0

My name is a half an hour early, but my body is on time. Votes: 0

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. Votes: 0

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness. Votes: 0

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself. Votes: 0

Give me a half hour's conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines. Votes: 0

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. Votes: 0

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour. Votes: 0

Rick Steiner is so stupid, it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. Votes: 0

My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me. Votes: 0

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life! Votes: 0

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past. Votes: 0

I'm a keen runner, so I try to fit in a half hour every other day. Votes: 0

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community Votes: 0

For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour. Votes: 0

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year. Votes: 0

The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass. Votes: 0

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant. Votes: 0

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. Votes: 0

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half. Votes: 0

Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior. Votes: 0

When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run. Votes: 0

If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true. Votes: 0

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour? Votes: 0

Give me a 6 pack, half-hour of rest and lets go play them again - We can beat them. Votes: 0

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes... Votes: 0

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone. Votes: 0

I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate. Votes: 0

Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour. Votes: 0

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years. Votes: 0

If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker. Votes: 0

A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour. Votes: 0

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour "” write, write, write. Votes: 0

If you drink O'Douls, you don't drink; but if you drink 20 O'Douls in a half hour, then you're a non-alcoholic. Votes: 0

The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour. Votes: 0

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal Votes: 0

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove. Votes: 0

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good. Votes: 0

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you. Votes: 0

I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour! Votes: 0

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy. Votes: 0

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries. Votes: 0

I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally. Votes: 0

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it. Votes: 0

Honestly, one-hour drama is the hardest format there is. I think it's harder than movies, and it's harder than half-hour comedy. Votes: 0

I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane. Votes: 0

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. Votes: 0

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. Votes: 0

I love sitting in the makeup trailer and getting my makeup done in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half. Votes: 0

...I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour. Votes: 0

Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker. Votes: 0

The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time. Votes: 0

When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down. Votes: 0

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work. Votes: 0

Martin Lawrence had no filter, and to me that was the greatest half hour of all time. Martin was ahead of his time. Votes: 0

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years. Votes: 0

You know you're rich when you have to drive for a half hour to get to your house once you're on your property. Votes: 0

The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours. Votes: 0

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing. Votes: 0

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half. Votes: 0

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. Votes: 0

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon Votes: 0

There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync. Votes: 0

You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong. Votes: 0

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated. Votes: 0

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour. Votes: 0

I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin. Votes: 0

When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side. Votes: 0

If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down. Votes: 0

Our sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour. Votes: 0

Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath. Votes: 0

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing. Votes: 0

As they used to say on Stingray, "˜Anything can happen in the next half hour'. I've always tried to live with that thought in mind. Votes: 0

Your favorite volhv showed up half an hour ago, complaining about his lack of sleep and stupid gods. He says he brought his Batman belt. Votes: 0

I'm staying in a lovely hotel, dressing robe behind the door, lovely fluffy sheets - took me a half an hour getting my suitcase closed. Votes: 0

I've done a lot of work other than sci-fi, and between half-hour comedy, stage, and various movie roles, I've really tried to avoid being typecast. Votes: 0

I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying. Votes: 0

You run for forty-five minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you hang out and talk tough Votes: 0

I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night. Votes: 0

If things go right, I'll be there about a week, and if things don't go right, I'll be there about an hour and a half! Votes: 0

Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an hour. Votes: 0

I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore. Votes: 0

Even if you have just half an hour, you can get a good workout. So I try to make it count no matter where I am. Votes: 0

We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour. Votes: 0

We covered so much ground on Thursday night that it took us half and hour. I'm not trying to look for excuses but that's the reality. Votes: 0

Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half. Votes: 0

I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important. Votes: 0

Even in fine-dining restaurants, you have people that say 'I want to be out in half hour', 'I want to be out in 45 minutes.' It happens. Votes: 0

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing. Votes: 0

I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week. Votes: 0

...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings Votes: 0

Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,” said Will. “I’ll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery. Votes: 0

I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV. Votes: 0

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long. Votes: 0

All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be. Votes: 0

I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth. Votes: 0

Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls)." Votes: 0

I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too. Votes: 0

I enrolled in a race car driving school, where you go for three days, and they wanted to rent me a video camera and charge me $100 for every half-hour. Votes: 0

The communications delays between Earth and Mars can be half an hour or more, so the people on the ground can't participate minute by minute in Mars surface activities. Votes: 0

If you can't afford a half hour three or four times a week taking care of the most priceless possession, your body, you've got to be sick. You're stupid. Votes: 0

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour. Votes: 0

Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.... Votes: 0

I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body. Votes: 0

...Take a half-hour a day to really appreciate the good things you have. And you will feel great. If you want to feel twice as great double that time! Votes: 0

I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of sitting there for an hour and a half watching a game like we saw between Ireland and England last Sunday. Votes: 0

I like to tell old jokes on stage after about an hour, or an hour and a half. I'll bring those old ones back because the fans love them. Votes: 0

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill. Votes: 0

We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down. Votes: 0

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy. Votes: 0

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer. Votes: 0

I never wore a single fedora filming L.A. Noire. It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process. Votes: 0

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy. Votes: 0

When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in Trance, which is about half an hour from Malibu. Votes: 0

Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence. Votes: 0

Some people come alive at night. I'm hopeless by 9 p.m. Coffee and Cadbury buy me an extra half hour. Often I can't get my clothes off I'm so far gone. Votes: 0

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good. Votes: 0

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking. Votes: 0

You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week. Votes: 0

The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels. Votes: 0

It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants. Votes: 0

An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour. Votes: 0

The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold! Votes: 0

I directed a half hour comedy pilot, 'Upgrade,' and had one of the best times ever! I had such a great time directing; I would love to get to direct another project. Votes: 0

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. Votes: 0

When I was doing half-hour shows, I loved it and was preparing myself for the hour shows. Then when I did the hour shows, I was preparing myself for the specials and features. Votes: 0

When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason. Votes: 0

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you don't. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you can't in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win. Votes: 0

Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself. Votes: 0

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win. Votes: 0

Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock. Votes: 0

We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly. Votes: 0

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming. Votes: 0

I do my show half-hour a night four nights a week. I haven't seen my kids in 18 months, and I am losing calcium in my bones. Doctors say I should stop. I'm not going to. Votes: 0

The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour. Votes: 0

I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself. Votes: 0

A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job. Votes: 0

I loved Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's 'Inside No 9.' The way that they constrained each episode to a single location, then tasked themselves with including completely new characters every week, within a single half-hour. Votes: 0