Quotes with twelve

  • I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
  • When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

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  • Robert Frost A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Herbert Spencer A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Jules Renard A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Ernest Dimnet 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
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Ann Coulter As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Allen Tate 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
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Arthur E. Waite Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Robert Frost By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Earl Nightingale Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Brian De Palma However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Judy Garland I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • James Thurber I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Adam Walinsky If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown.
    Adam Walinsky
    American Lawyer, Speechwriter (1937 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Shahn It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Joseph Brodsky 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
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Vance Havner It's about time we quit playing church in these services that start at eleven o clock sharp and end at twelve o clock dull.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Adolf Galland It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Bruce Barton Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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