Quotes about Dozen

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen. Votes: 4

One rose says more than the dozen. Votes: 4

Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation. Votes: 4

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without. Votes: 4

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. Votes: 4

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing. Votes: 4

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. Votes: 4

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations. Votes: 4

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. Votes: 4

My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.' Votes: 3

Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match Votes: 3

For me doing Cheaper By The Dozen 2 was great because I did have a lot bigger part in that movie and every situation is different. Votes: 3

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen. Votes: 3

I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the Dirty Dozen and all that. Votes: 3

Get yourself a few "˜Dime a Dozen Generals,' bid high in the "˜former statesmen lobby auction', and put in your pocket one or two "˜ex-congressmen turned lobbyists' who know the ropes when it comes to pocketing a few dozen who still serve. Votes: 3

But actors with political views are a dime a dozen. Votes: 2

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free. Votes: 2

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless. Votes: 2

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not. Votes: 2

There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things! Votes: 2

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all? Votes: 2

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on. Votes: 2

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box. Votes: 2

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. Votes: 2

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong. Votes: 2

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?' Votes: 2

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. Votes: 2

In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions. Votes: 2

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. Votes: 2

I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.' Votes: 2

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. Votes: 2

I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me. Votes: 2

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness. Votes: 2

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards. Votes: 2

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. Votes: 2

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. Votes: 2

It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own. Votes: 2

Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve. Votes: 2

To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction. Votes: 2

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball. Votes: 2

When it comes to romance, I believe in keeping it simple. With my last girlfriend, we were on our way to our favorite restaurant when I pretended that the car was crappin' out. I asked her to get out and check if smoke was coming from the exhaust. When she did, I popped the trunk and inside were six dozen roses and a stuffed bear. Votes: 2

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. Votes: 0

Im as country as a dozen eggs. Votes: 0

Ive done a dozen or two dozen infomercials. Votes: 0

I've done a dozen or two dozen infomercials. Votes: 0

I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate. Votes: 0

But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen. Votes: 0

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff. Votes: 0

Actors with political views are a dime a dozen. Votes: 0

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones. Votes: 0

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans. Votes: 0

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts. Votes: 0

In 20 years of comedy, I've probably had a dozen good points. Votes: 0

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses Votes: 0

My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb. Votes: 0

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. Votes: 0

Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj. Votes: 0

I like my men like I like my roses by the dozen. Votes: 0

If you've got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages. Votes: 0

It was six of a half and one dozen of the other. Votes: 0

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that Votes: 0

Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen. Votes: 0

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child. Votes: 0

A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment. Votes: 0

I don't race a lot, half a dozen (races) a year maybe. Votes: 0

Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless. Votes: 0

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on. Votes: 0

Peter Shilton conceded five, you don't get many of those to the dozen Votes: 0

Hurry it up, I could hang a dozen men while your fooling around. Votes: 0

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess Votes: 0

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone. Votes: 0

We want men here, not just players. Players are a dime a dozen Votes: 0

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen. Votes: 0

One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus. Votes: 0

For every curiosity headline that succeed in getting results, a dozen will fail. Votes: 0

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men. Votes: 0

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. Votes: 0

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. Votes: 0

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. Votes: 0

One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another. Votes: 0

Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find. Votes: 0

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels. Votes: 0

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones. Votes: 0

I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others. Votes: 0

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches. Votes: 0

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. Votes: 0

A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue. Votes: 0

I do splurge on diaper bags. I have a half dozen in different colors and styles. Votes: 0

It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep. Votes: 0

There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them. Votes: 0

You knew you were an Arab if your ride form the airport was two dozen people. Votes: 0

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation. Votes: 0

I should mortify a dozen Sir Johns if it might aid my investigation." - Elizabeth Bennet Votes: 0

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. Votes: 0

I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them. Votes: 0

Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving. Votes: 0

Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley. Votes: 0

A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour. Votes: 0

Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments. Votes: 0

It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats. Votes: 0

There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting. Votes: 0

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs. Votes: 0

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself. Votes: 0

I'm not an expert in typefaces that serve scientific writing, but I'd guess that's another dozen or two. Votes: 0

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one. Votes: 0

If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen. Votes: 0

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? Votes: 0

Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put "Emily, I love you" on the back of the bill. Votes: 0

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life. Votes: 0

I would order a dozen bats and there were times they'd come back with handles at each end. Votes: 0

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling. Votes: 0

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows. Votes: 0

Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett. Votes: 0

How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids. Votes: 0

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly. Votes: 0

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand. Votes: 0

Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory. Votes: 0

You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope. Votes: 0

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design. Votes: 0

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life. Votes: 0

We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time. Votes: 0

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. Votes: 0

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner. Votes: 0

You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys. Votes: 0

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. Votes: 0

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen! Votes: 0

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now Votes: 0

I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am. Votes: 0

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver. Votes: 0

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now. Votes: 0

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative. Votes: 0

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist. Votes: 0

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards. Votes: 0

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen. Votes: 0

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money. Votes: 0

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found. Votes: 0

The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her. Votes: 0

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times. Votes: 0

Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs. Votes: 0

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made. Votes: 0

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part. Votes: 0

I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd. Votes: 0

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one. Votes: 0

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened. Votes: 0

At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath. Votes: 0

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand. Votes: 0

One day, I want to get rich enough so that every time I walk into a room I can release a dozen doves. Votes: 0

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees. Votes: 0

Guys willing to hold your dick are a dime a dozen; save your hearts for the one who wants to hold your hand. Votes: 0

My husband and I own half a dozen iPods, a Mac desktop, and four Mac laptops. We're clearly fans of Mr. Jobs' work. Votes: 0

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen! Votes: 0

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. Votes: 0

Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned. Votes: 0

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? Votes: 0

At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise. Votes: 0

But I'd much rather face a dozen assassins like LaFleur any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings. Votes: 0

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences. Votes: 0

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Votes: 0

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately. Votes: 0

Over the years, my husband and I have sent two dozen or more girls to college and helped them with whatever else they needed. Votes: 0

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. Votes: 0

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy. Votes: 0

I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive. Votes: 0

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month. Votes: 0

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they? Votes: 0

I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before. Votes: 0

To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation. Votes: 0

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child. Votes: 0

A talking computor with an attitude problem? Haven't I seen that in a dozen b-grade sci-fi flicks?" "Where do you think I got the idea? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story Votes: 0

The NYPD was ubiquitous. They were always around Malcolm X. Whenever Malcolm spoke, there would be one or two dozen cops all over the place. Votes: 0

I could go to a dozen houses, scrape away the dirt, and find his footprints, but my own prints evaporated before I ever looked back. Votes: 0

The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen. Votes: 0

Set out to do three or four things this year with gusto and excellence, rather than doing a dozen things just sufficiently. Trust me on this. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I did a dozen superhero pinups. I signed them "Kirby/Royer" because it was Kirby's drawing. I didn't think I was committing some sort of sin. Votes: 0

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened. Votes: 0

When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I put out the Greg Call, which sounds like a whistle-quack, and a few dozen Toms responded. The only time I need a Tom is tomorrow. Votes: 0

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man. Votes: 0

Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it. Votes: 0

Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban revolution. Votes: 0

I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even. Votes: 0

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states. Votes: 0

If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen wars all over the world. Votes: 0

Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults. Votes: 0

Little late for that now. I don't think an "˜Oops, my bad, my weapon accidentally misfired two dozen rounds' will work to get me out of this. (Devyn) Votes: 0

I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one. Votes: 0

Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters. Votes: 0

I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us that we need to manage every day. Votes: 0

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II. Votes: 0

The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred; ... Votes: 0

If you die of pneumonia,I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen guys who'll try to kill me and make it look like an accident (Hale) Votes: 0

The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles. Votes: 0

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time. Votes: 0

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage. Votes: 0

Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star. Votes: 0

There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around. Votes: 0

There's something very dangerous happening in states across the country. A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors. Votes: 0

All right, two dozen house specials. Any chance one of you might want to live dangerously and try a vegetable? (Aimee) Do we look like rabbits to you? (Fury) Votes: 0

Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close. Votes: 0

... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take. Votes: 0

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing. Votes: 0

Bobby and I went through some old questionnaires about customer requirements for languages, then we compiled a new one and sent it out to a few dozen people we knew. Votes: 0

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort, nobody can judge effort. Because effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else. Votes: 0

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence. Votes: 0

I tried to write the book [Today Matters] with integrity and say, health is one of my daily dozen, and I work on it, but I don't have this right. Votes: 0

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. Votes: 0

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. Votes: 0

I know I have a first-rate mind, but that`s no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it! Votes: 0

Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations. Votes: 0

So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries. Votes: 0

There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing. Votes: 0

Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing. Votes: 0

How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none. Votes: 0

After a generation of misrule under Mr. Hussein, who built a huge military infrastructure while neglecting civilian investment, and a dozen years of United Nations sanctions, Iraq's unemployment rate tops 50 percent. Votes: 0

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief. Votes: 0

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. Votes: 0

can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were only two pogroms there. What's two pogroms? Votes: 0

Start a meditation session by repeating a mantra, perhaps, "Aum", which is the most powerful of all mantras. Then, after repeating the mantra perhaps a dozen times, focus on a yantra. Votes: 0

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine Votes: 0

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story. Votes: 0

Womankind always seems to be able to see a dozen steps into the future, far ahead of what men are able to see. And they have strength where we do not. Votes: 0

I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while. Votes: 0

A rose is a mix of thorns with a flower, and is therefore half fuck you and half fuck me. If I gave you a dozen, would you fuck me 12 times? Votes: 0

I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality Votes: 0

She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there. Votes: 0

Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy. Votes: 0

The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window. Votes: 0

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut. Votes: 0

Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several thousand who live in enlightened states of mind. Votes: 0

Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children? Votes: 0

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant. Votes: 0

Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen. Votes: 0

Bill Cosby no longer on Temple University`s board. His name has been removed from various college scholarships and buildings. Two dozen colleges and universities have rescinded honorary degrees they gave him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily. Votes: 0

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ. Votes: 0

I've published several virtually invisible novels and several dozen even more invisible short stories over the years, all of which give me joy - unlike the cumulative experience of seeking publishers for them! Votes: 0

If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in. Votes: 0

There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away. Votes: 0

For 15 years I was a complete arsehole to a dozen people. I said I would try and make it right with those people, and anybody that gave me an audience, I was there. Votes: 0

I'm here to tell you that a champion is someone who has fallen off the horse a dozen times and gotten back on the horse a dozen times. Successful people never give up. Votes: 0

Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this,. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor. Votes: 0

By the time Buffy finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love. Votes: 0

I have half a dozen designers who work for me, they 'realise' most of the design work, and I act as the design director and the main point of client contact on each project. Votes: 0

"ŽFor Tempus...was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him; he fought like the gods themselves... Votes: 0

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day. Votes: 0

When I visit local communities, people often complain that they need the approval of several dozen government departments to get something done or to start a business, and people are quite frustrated about this. Votes: 0

He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake. Votes: 0

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books. Votes: 0

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day. Votes: 0

Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance. Votes: 0

As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia, Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White House was involved. Votes: 0

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. Votes: 0

Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds. Votes: 0

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes. Votes: 0

On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East. Votes: 0

L'homme est bien insensé. Il ne saurait forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux à douzaines. Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen. Votes: 0

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart. Votes: 0

Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?''For fun?''Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction. Votes: 0

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine. Votes: 0

I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them. Votes: 0

Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had called my name often during my life with them ... It doesn't seem strange to me. Votes: -1