Half A Year Quotes

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.

I haven’t had sex in two and a half years. A guy I met in San Francisco gave me a sympathy blow job. It didn’t really work. I said, “You’re just doing this ’cause you feel sorry for me.” We stopped in the middle.

My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child’s mind–seven and a half years old–I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

I think, internally, we Catholics have known this for a long time. I think we’re just thrilled and grateful that the rest of the world now is sharing in the esteem and gratitude that we’ve had for Pope John Paul II for 26 and a half years.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you’re kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

I haven’t missed a game in two-and-a-half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys (media) and I get sick again.

I have no anonymity.I’ve not had a drink in nine and a half years. That’s my whole story right there.

I don’t drive an Escalade; I’ve never lived on a mansion; I live in a townhouse. Even with my internet business, when I was making just shy of a million and a half a year, I lived in the same house.

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

The biggest change is that time just goes by so fast when you’re on the road. It seems like it’s only been a month or so since I’ve been back and it’s already been more than half a year. I can’t complain, though. I’m in a great spot right and it’s up to me to take advantage of it while I can.

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room’s decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don’t expect that to change.

I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn’t teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

You have to be flexible enough to realize that, over the course of making a film for three and a half years, things are going to slightly change and drift, as you work out solutions to each problem as they come up.