Twelve famous quotes

I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.
-- Abby Sunderland

#Twelve #Faith In God #Resilient

It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.
-- Adolf Galland

#Balance #Twelve #Unbelievable

The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Twelve #Goes On #Vipers

That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.
-- Alan Keyes

#Eight #Scary #Twelve

Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run
-- Alan Parry

#Football #Running #Twelve

I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.
-- Alice B. Toklas

#Mean #Twelve #Noon

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
-- Allen Tate

#Honor #Twenties #Twelve

As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way.
-- Ally Carter

#Girl #Twenties #Twelve

Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals.
-- Andrew Tobias

#America #Twelve #Fifteen

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
-- Ansel Adams

#Photography #Years #Twelve

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.
-- Ava Gardner

#Years #White #Twelve

Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar

#Twelve #Today #Strive

So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.
-- Bernhard Langer

#Twelve #Complaining #Assistants

The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.
-- Bill Bryson

#Men #Twelve #Hours

Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago!
-- Bill Cosby

#Funny #Kids #Twelve

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years
-- Brian De Palma

#School #Years #Twelve

By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.
-- Carrie Preston

#Play #Yards #Twelve

We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,.
-- Claude Martin

#Sea #Fishing #Twelve

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death
-- Cressida Cowell

#Twelve #Degrees #Hopeless

I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
-- Dallas Roberts

#Coders #Twelve

I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
-- Dane Cook

#Book #Years #Twelve

I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years
-- Danny Glover

#Years #Twelve #Ambassadors

You called me at four thirty-four....I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be banned and replaced with something more reasonable, like, say, nine twelve.
-- Darynda Jones

#Hate #Thinking #Twelve

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
-- David Lee Roth

#Feet #People #Twelve

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.
-- David McCullough

#Writing #Years #Twelve

I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.
-- Dean Koontz

#Addiction #Twelve #Needs

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.
-- Don Shula

#Work #Successful #Twelve

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
-- Ed Koch

#Age #Twelve #Born

It took the national debt two hundred years to reach $1 trillion. Supply Side Economics quadrupled the national debt to over $4 trillion in twelve years (1980-1992) under the Republicans. Bill Clinton actually paid down the national debt. How did he do it? He raised taxes. It produced the longest sustained economic expansion in U.S. History.
-- Ed Schultz

#Years #Two #Twelve

This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard flight...one, from...here to there. We'll be cruising at a height of ten feet, going up to twelve and a half feet if we see anything big. And our copilot today is a flask of coffee.
-- Eddie Izzard

#Coffee #Feet #Twelve

The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has nothing to do with me. The story of my life is things. Things that aren’t mine, that won’t ever be mine. It’s all I’ve ever known. I wish it wasn’t.
-- Elizabeth Scott

#Chocolate #Wish #Twelve

Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.
-- Eminem

#Self #Age #Twelve

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
-- Emo Philips

#Illinois #Twelve #My Family

An only child is never twelve.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Children #Twelve #Only Child

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
-- Ernest Dimnet

#Twelve #Rooms #Six

I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.
-- Errol Flynn

#Twelve #Lines #Nonsense

God is a twelve year old boy with Asperger's.
-- Eugene Mirman

#Boys #Years #Twelve

When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
-- Frances Mayes

#Reading #Names #Twelve

If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.
-- Francine Prose

#Writing #Thinking #Twelve

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
-- Fred Hoyle

#Age #Twelve #Three

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
-- Freeman Dyson

#Education #Years #Twelve

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.
-- Gary Ross

#Years #Twelve #Shots

The twelve months... Snowy, Flowy, Blowy, Showery, Flowery, Bowery, Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy, Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy.
-- George F. R. Ellis

#Twelve #Months #January

If...[Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.
-- George Perle

#Class #Twelve #Tone

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
-- George S. Kaufman

#Twelve #Dollars #Birth

On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve.
-- George Strait

#Romance #Twelve #Dense

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
-- George Wald

#Twelve #Defense #Gross

The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.
-- Georgette Heyer

#Eye #Years #Twelve

These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.
-- Grant Morrison

#Character #Play #Twelve

Thirteen at a table is unlucky only, when the hostess has only twelve chops.
-- Groucho Marx

#Twelve #Tables #Unlucky

The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.
-- Gustav Holst

#Knowing #Twelve #Spheres

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
-- Harriet Ann Jacobs

#Years #Mistress #Twelve

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Mean #Twelve #Crowns

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Twelve #Widows #Handsome

In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds.
-- Howard Kurtz

#Age #Twelve #Online

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.
-- Hugh Howey

#Book #Bored #Twelve

Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into account.
-- Ian Mckellen

#School #Kids #Twelve

No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
-- Ignazio Silone

#Writing #Years #Twelve

He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. “Eleven out of twelve work fine. I’d say that’s better chances than getting an ***** with a blind date and women still try.
-- Ilona Andrews

#Voice #Trying #Twelve

A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.
-- Jack Benny

#Laughter #Kids #Twelve

Twelve to seventeen minutes is plenty on the treadmill--if it's done fast. That's all you need for cardiovascular benefit. You don't need to spend that extra time unless you are over weight and you need to burn off extra calories. Do it vigorously, like somebody is chasing you. You've got to do it hard. Otherwise, if you just take it easy and do it longer, you are spending all that time when you don't need it. Use that extra time with your weights instead.
-- Jack LaLanne

#Twelve #Needs #Use

When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on.
-- James Howe

#Thinking #Twelve #Stories

The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time… it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising — carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that,
-- James Lovelock

#Years #Twelve #Rising

I saw the movie, he said. I know what it's about. Listen to this. When girls get to be about twelve or so - he leaned toward us - their ***** bleed.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Girl #Twelve #Saws

This is a woman you've known less than twelve hours. It took you a year to pick out a couch, but you're seriously—" “Yes,” Roger said. “She's the one.
-- Jennifer Crusie

#Years #Twelve #Roger

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.
-- Jessica Lange

#France #Twelve #Rage

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.
-- Joan Didion

#Reading #Simple #Twelve

Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.
-- John Ajvide Lindqvist

#Long #Twelve

Jesus Christ only had twelve, you know, and one of them was a double.
-- John le Carre

#Jesus #Jesus Christ #Twelve

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
-- John Lennon

#Thinking #Twelve #Genius

Twelve million students take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced. Now, if 5 percent opt out, that creates - that triggers some restrictions, and 5 percent of 12 million is only 600,000.
-- John Merrow

#Twelve #Students #Restriction

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.
-- Johnny Cash

#Twelve #Way #Found

There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.
-- Jon Scieszka

#Book #Twelve #Pages

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
-- Jorge Luis Borges

#Eight #Two #Twelve

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
-- Joseph Brodsky

#Country #Judging #Twelve

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.
-- Joseph Hume

#Law #Twelve #Events

God hath not revealed anything to Joseph, but what he will make known unto the Twelve, and even the least Saint may know all things as fast as he is able to bear them...
-- Joseph Smith, Jr.

#Twelve #Saint #May

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.
-- Joseph Smith, Jr.

#Church #Majority #Twelve

Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.
-- Judy Blume

#Twelve #Findings

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
-- Judy Garland

#Memorable #Age #Twelve

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.
-- Keith Miller

#Twelve #Purpose #Steps

I like to work half a day. I don't care of it's the first twelve hours or the second twelve hurs. I just put in my half every day. It keeps me out of trouble.
-- Kemmons Wilson

#Twelve #Half #Care

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.
-- Kesha

#Years #Twelve #Playing Music

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.
-- Kimberly Willis Holt

#Reading #Twelve #Paper

I just got pinned by a freakin' twelve year old.
-- Kurt Angle

#Years #Wwe #Twelve

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.
-- Leo Kottke

#Sibling #Twelve #Noses

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.
-- Lindsay Wagner

#Class #Acting #Twelve

When your eyes are softly focused on the horizon for sustained periods, your brain releases endorphins. It's the same as a runner's high. These days, we spend our lives staring at screens twelve inches in front of us.
-- Maria Semple

#Eye #Brain #Twelve

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
-- Mario Puzo

#Men #Years #Twelve

If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.
-- Mariska Hargitay

#Pay It Forward #Pay #Twelve

I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.
-- Mary MacLane

#Twelve #Genius

Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.
-- Michael Pare

#Wind #Twelve #Use

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.
-- Murray Walker

#Funny #Racing #Twelve

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
-- Patrick Rafter

#Twelve #Winner #Slam

I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.
-- Patti Smith

#Art #Years #Twelve

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.
-- Paul Hindemith

#Tone #Twelve #Needs

Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.
-- Plato

#Looks #Earth #Twelve

Twelve minutes. I can give you that.
-- Rick Riordan

#Giving #Twelve #Minutes

I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.
-- Sigourney Weaver

#Names #Twelve #Changed

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.
-- Sophia Loren

#Twelve #Language #Enough