Dozen famous quotes

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Sacrifice #Men #Dozen

Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley.
-- Ally Carter

#Half #Dozen #Way

The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end
-- Amanda Palmer

#Color #Dozen #Patterns

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
-- Antony Beevor

#Archives #Half #Dozen

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Dozen #Littles #Imagine

I like my men like I like my roses by the dozen.
-- Barbara La Marr

#Men #Rose #Dozen

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
-- Ben Chifley

#Leadership #Men #Dozen

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.
-- Bob Dylan

#Ocean #Dozen #Dense

In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.
-- Bobby Jindal

#Home #Louisiana #Dozen

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
-- Brad Pitt

#Dimes #Dozen

Scripture is something God had ‘let be,’ and so it is at once God’s creation and the creation of the dozens of people and communities and cultures who produced it.
-- Brian D. McLaren

#People #Community #Dozen

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
-- Budd Schulberg

#Fighting #Dozen #Way

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
-- Buffalo Bill

#Men #Half #Dozen

Hurry it up, I could hang a dozen men while your fooling around.
-- Carl Panzram

#Men #Serial Killer #Dozen

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.
-- Caroline Gordon

#Book #Half #Dozen

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
-- Cecil B. DeMille

#Agents #Dozen #Spirit

Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.
-- Clint Walker

#Dirty #Vacation #Dozen

It was six of a half and one dozen of the other.
-- Danny Higginbotham

#Football #Half #Dozen

Peter Shilton conceded five, you don't get many of those to the dozen
-- Des Lynam

#Soccer #Dozen #Peter

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.
-- Don Herold

#Teacher #Half #Dozen

I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
-- Doris Kearns Goodwin

#Book #Dozen

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
-- Douglas Horton

#Ideas #Dimes #Dozen

In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.
-- Edward Bernays

#Practice #Fabric #Dozen

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.
-- Edward Dmytryk

#Half #Dozen #Single Person

Im as country as a dozen eggs.
-- Elvin Bishop

#Country #Eggs #Dozen

One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Beauty #Girl #Dozen

Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.
-- Frank Gaffney

#Sea #Events #Dozen

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
-- Gene Tierney

#Fun #Commitment #Dozen

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.
-- Giorgio Morandi

#Artist #Half #Dozen

There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.
-- Grant Morrison

#Struggle #Done #Dozen

Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen.
-- Henry Latham Doherty

#Dollars #Use #Dozen

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Contentment #Dozen #Faces

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.
-- I. F. Stone

#News #Dozen #Littles

I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.
-- Ingrid Newkirk

#Animal #Dozen #Sometimes

There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them.
-- Ivan Sutherland

#People #Dozen #Six

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses
-- J. Patrick Lewis

#Long #Library #Dozen

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.
-- James Gunn

#Ideas #Dozen #Brilliant

There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!
-- Jim Rohn

#Differences #Half #Dozen

Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do.
-- Jim Rohn

#Inspirational #Decision #Dozen

I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.
-- Joanne Greenberg

#Dozen #Sin #Found

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
-- John Edensor Littlewood

#Paper #Dozen #Mathematics

Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator the Christian Science Monitor has dubbed 'a rabble-rousing statesman.'
-- John Fund

#Christian #Oklahoma #Dozen

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?
-- John James Audubon

#Book #Dozen #Littles

My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb.
-- John Keats

#Friendship #Dozen #Drink

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
-- John le Carre

#Dozen #Doing Nothing #Reason

R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).
-- John Thomas Sladek

#Blood #Law #Dozen

Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.
-- Joyce Appleby

#Details #Dozen #Coherence

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.
-- Judy Holliday

#Trying #Actors #Dozen

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
-- Julian Casablancas

#Trying #Why Not #Dozen

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now
-- Lamar Alexander

#Eggs #Needs #Dozen

i felt my being flutter. each tousled head that came through the door i wanted to be his, but no and on, a dozen boys entered, yet not the one.
-- Laura Whitcomb

#Boys #Doors #Dozen

If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately"), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!
-- Lewis Carroll

#Friendly #Dozen #Letters

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.
-- Louise Brown

#Girl #Dancing #Dozen

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.
-- Mary Kay Ash

#Ideas #People #Dozen

Ive done a dozen or two dozen infomercials.
-- Matthew Lesko

#Two #Dozen #Done

In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
-- Maya Angelou

#Pie #Trying #Dozen

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
-- Michael Ignatieff

#Country #Dozen #Britain

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.
-- Michael Lewis

#Dozen #Different #Needs

I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.
-- Michael Moore

#Dvds #Gone #Dozen

Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.
-- Michelle Malkin

#Fighting #Sight #Dozen

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.
-- Mickey Melchiondo

#Song #Writing #Dozen

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
-- Mikhail Kalashnikov

#Design #Finals #Dozen

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
-- Nate Silver

#Thinking #Space #Dozen

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
-- Nikita Khrushchev

#Children #Dozen #May

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
-- Pat Oliphant

#Thinking #Cartoon #Dozen

Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.
-- Paul Ekman

#Expression #People #Dozen

Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare.
-- Paul Ryan

#Broken #Dozen #Want

Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.
-- Paul Stamets

#Unique #Mushrooms #Dozen

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.
-- Paul Tillich

#Dozen #Tests #Ethics

But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Love Is #Dozen #Faces

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.
-- Peter Straub

#Phrases #Dozen #Copies

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?
-- Philippa Gregory

#Latin #Dozen #May

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
-- Randall Jarrell

#Intelligent #Dozen #Honest

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.
-- Rick Perlstein

#Book #Careers #Dozen

'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.
-- Rob Sheffield

#Song #Years #Dozen

Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.
-- Robert Charles Wilson

#Color #Weight #Dozen

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.
-- Robert Fortune

#Garden #London #Dozen

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess
-- Robert Jordan

#Six #Dozen #Sometimes

I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.
-- Rufus Wainwright

#People #Dozen #Meals

I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#People #Trials #Dozen

Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.
-- Shane Warne

#Wall #Dozen #Bowling

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Insane #Dozen #Dull

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
-- Sissy Spacek

#Motherhood #Years #Dozen

Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.
-- Stanislaw Ulam

#Feelings #Dozen #Radiation

You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of you and your existence that is incommunicable; you die alone, the experience is yours alone, you might have a dozen spectators who love you, but your isolation, from birth to death, is never fully penetrated.
-- Steve Toltz

#Love You #Dozen #Might

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.
-- Steven Erikson

#Soldier #Half #Dozen

I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.
-- Steven Spielberg

#People #Crowds #Dozen

Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.
-- T. H. White

#War #Dozen #Reason

A species may eat a particular bacterium, phytoplankton, smaller fish, or plant in an area. Lacking a predator, these species/populations will overgrow and alter the area's biology, overwhelming and driving to extinction dozens or hundreds or thousands of other local species.
-- Thom Hartmann

#Environmental #Dozen #May

If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.
-- Tom Shales

#Dozen #Selling #Pops

A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
-- W. S. Gilbert

#Wind #Half #Dozen

One rose says more than the dozen.
-- Wendy Craig

#Rose #Dozen

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
-- William Trevor

#Mother #Thinking #Dozen

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
-- Zachary Levi

#Giving #Pet #Dozen

At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains in front of you, when you know that you have to a goal a few hundred, a few dozen meters when you are right in front. This is the time of happiness.
-- Jerzy Kukuczka

#Goal #Dozen #Hundred

Why is there no mandate? You [Democrats] have lost 60 congressional seats since President [Barack] Obama got there. You lost more than a dozen Senators, a dozen Governors. 1,000 state legislative seats.
-- Kellyanne Conway

#President #Dozen #States

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
-- Louis L'Amour

#Memories #Dozen #Association

there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.
-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Family #Dozen #Way

Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Groups #Looks #Dozen

[Judy Price] Osgood was among about half a dozen [Hillary] Clinton friends who I sat down with more than a year ago before she announced her candidacy.
-- Tamara Keith

#Years #Half #Dozen