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Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed. -- Saint Francis de Sales
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. -- Nigel Rees
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. -- Tom Rath
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?" -- Benjamin Franklin
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. -- Simon Jenkins
I ride a recumbent bike for half an hour every day. -- Don Rickles
I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place. -- Lech Walesa
Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour. -- Pat Cash
I'm always exhausted after a show, even if it's just half an hour. -- Tove Lo
You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent. -- Hal Roach
He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. -- Edwin Edwards
I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna. -- Antonio Banderas
I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour. -- George Hamilton
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. -- Fay Godwin
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. -- Robert Hass
I run a lot. I love running. I try to run at least half an hour a day. -- Elisabeth Harnois
We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs. -- Chevy Chase
To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers. -- George Whitefield
Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it. -- Louis Leakey
The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half. -- Adrianne Palicki
If I have half an hour to spare, I just have to hit the shops. And I can get overexcited. -- Dorothy Atkinson
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. -- Debra Winger
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. -- Tena Desae
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. -- Josh Young
Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month. -- Geri Halliwell
We talked filth for a pleasant half hour. -- William Boyd
Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream. -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
His finest hour lasted a minute and a half. -- Phyllis Diller
She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour. -- E. M. Forster
In half an hour, I'll know more than you do. -- Alfred Delp
Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense. -- Jason Statham
I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy. -- Lauren Graham
At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides. -- Denise Van Outen
TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour. -- Bill McKibben
I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good. -- Sela Ward
A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour. -- Toni Onley
I'm a fan of half-hour shows that can be both funny and dramatic. -- Hank Stuever
A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments. -- Ernie J Zelinski
And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence. -- William Shakespeare
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect. -- Barbara Bush
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. -- Wilkie Collins
I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour. -- Mordechai Vanunu
My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.' -- Rocky Carroll
Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat. -- Karen Walker
My name is a half an hour early, but my body is on time. -- Jarod Kintz
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. -- Glenn Gould
If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself. -- Seth MacFarlane
Give me a half hour's conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines. -- Joseph Kennedy
Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. -- Tom Kettle
Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour. -- Shirley Conran
Rick Steiner is so stupid, it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. -- Jim Cornette
My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me. -- Julia Ward Howe
It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life! -- Emily Eden
In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past. -- Jodi Picoult
I'm a keen runner, so I try to fit in a half hour every other day. -- Olly Murs
If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community -- George Bernard Shaw
For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour. -- Katherine Bernhardt
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year. -- Gertrude Stein
The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass. -- Frederic Ozanam
It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. -- Helen Keller
You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half. -- Robert Crippen
Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior. -- Lord Chesterfield
When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run. -- Katarina Witt
If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true. -- Garth Hudson
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me a 6 pack, half-hour of rest and lets go play them again - We can beat them. -- Jack Lambert
The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes... -- Clemence Housman
At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone. -- Evelyn Waugh
I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate. -- Artie Lange
Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour. -- Saint Francis de Sales
One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years. -- Coventry Patmore
If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker. -- Mike McDermott
A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour. -- Robert Breault
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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. -- Mitch Hedberg
The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour. -- Jane Fonda
We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal -- Edgar Allan Poe
After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove. -- Sid Caesar
My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good. -- Ellsworth Kelly
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you. -- Manuel Puig
I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour! -- Janet Evanovich
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy. -- Warren Buffett
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries. -- Charles S. Dutton
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. -- St. Vincent
You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it. -- Sharon Gless
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. -- Alexis Denisof
I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane. -- Craig Ferguson
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. -- William Osler
A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. -- George Gurdjieff
I love sitting in the makeup trailer and getting my makeup done in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half. -- Claire Danes
...I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour. -- Golda Meir
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. -- Matt Damon
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. -- Stevie Nicks
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. -- Buddy Hackett
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. -- Anne Akiko Meyers
Martin Lawrence had no filter, and to me that was the greatest half hour of all time. Martin was ahead of his time. -- Cory Hardrict
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years. -- Edmund Burke
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. -- Chris Rock
The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours. -- Frank Spotnitz
It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. -- Malin Akerman
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. -- Woodrow Wilson
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 -- Winston Churchill
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. -- Bjork
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. -- Kim Cattrall
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. -- Andrew Wylie
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. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
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. -- Dick Cavett
I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin. -- Deepika Padukone
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. -- Francis Spellman
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. -- Emmanuel Jal
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. -- Joachim Low
Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath. -- Colin Farrell
Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing. -- Dennis Brown
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. -- John Cooper Clarke
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. -- Ilona Andrews

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