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One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.
— Johannes Brahms
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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
Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.
— Victor Blanchard Scheffer
Even a dozen soldiers couldn't make her feel as safe as Valten could.
— Melanie Dickerson
If only the last dozen years were just a dream my younger self was having, how wonderful that would be.
— Inio Asano
Rich men in hell are a dime a dozen.
— Will Bevis
Byron had to blink a dozen times, each time hoping the dream would end. But the unreal was real.
— Peter Lerangis
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.
— Patrick Rothfuss
A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.
— Jane Austen
It was as if there were but one woman in the world, laughing at him from behind a dozen masks.
— Kim Newman
It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.
— Charles M. Schulz
Wandering's the most addictive drug there is, I think, and every hidden road leads on to a dozen more.
— Stephen King
They were all around him, half a dozen of them, white-faced children with dark eyes, boys and girls together. And in their hands, the daggers.
— George R R Martin
Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what's priceless.
— Robert Dieffenbach
I should mortify a dozen Sir Johns if it might aid my investigation." - Elizabeth Bennet
— Debbie Cowens
I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.
— Curt Sachs
My husband and I own half a dozen iPods, a Mac desktop, and four Mac laptops. We're clearly fans of Mr. Jobs' work.
— Sarah Lacy
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
Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match
— Joshua Caleb
To give my next novel balance, I'm going to begin it with "The start" followed by a dozen carriage returns. It offsets the words, "The end.
— Michael Kroft
It was six of a half and one dozen of the other.
— Danny Higginbotham
They'd reached St Thomas's and climbed the half-dozen wooden steps to the small veranda. Gamache
— Louise Penny
No one can read two thousand books. In the four hundred years I have lived, I've not read more than half a dozen
— Jorge Luis Borges
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
— John Edensor Littlewood
Six, one half dozen or the other ...
— David Dweck
Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.
— Joe Pantoliano
Widespread famine, poverty, and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria!
— Ernest Cline
I said no thank you a dozen times, and fuck off once.
— Hugh Laurie
Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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.
— Jennifer Estep
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
— Fritz Kreisler
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
— Henry David Thoreau
I've skimmed through it a dozen times, the book glued to my side the past few days, like maybe the information will sink in through osmosis.
— J.M. Darhower
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.
— Roderick Haig-Brown
Our full stomachs make us more uncomfortable and breathless than we were on the morning's climb. I begin to regret those last dozen oysters.
— Suzanne Collins
My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.'
— Jared Kushner
Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.
— Henry David Thoreau
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
Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.
— George Herbert
There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting.
— Graydon Carter
I would order a dozen bats and there were times they'd come back with handles at each end.
— Bob Uecker
Arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of
— Charles Dickens
During the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
I've heard of a dozen prophets over the years. It's not an uncommon occupation.
— Emily St. John Mandel
I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.
— Walt Whitman
Well, I'd find sleeping with you a pleasant thing, but I'd prefer making love with you a few dozen times first.
— Nora Roberts
Christian allegories are a dime a dozen. You can find them in any story, if you look hard enough. Even Harry Potter.
— Jason Krumbine
Plain girls who were also clever were a ha'pence a dozen.
— Julie Anne Long
If you were to visit a dozen talent hotbeds tomorrow, you would be struck by how much time the learners spend observing top performers.
— Daniel Coyle
There a dozen ways to skin a cat. All of them are illegal.
— Ness Kingsley
The best find hadn't been in the bunker, though. The garage had a half-dozen unused but well-maintained bicycles, complete with saddlebags. Even
— James S.A. Corey
Actors with political views are a dime a dozen.
— Tom Hanks
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.
— Rosalind Russell
WarGames had been one of Halliday's all-time favorite movies. Which was why I had watched it over three dozen times.
— Ernest Cline
You beat a dozen armed men single-handed?" "Oh aye, sir," said Wee Mad Arthur slyly, "but it was nae fair, I had them outnumbered.
— Terry Pratchett
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
— Brad Pitt
Over a dozen thaumaturges were stationed around the room. It was almost like the queen expected someone to start trouble.
— Marissa Meyer
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
— Cecil B. DeMille
Over the years, my husband and I have sent two dozen or more girls to college and helped them with whatever else they needed.
— Soledad O'Brien
Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.
— Dean Wareham
Come on, Eden, don't be naive. Demonic children are a dime a dozen in Netherworld. Need I mention Children of the Corn? Damien? Justine Bieber?
— Michelle Rowen
With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
— Julian Casablancas
To the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now.
— Louisa May Alcott
I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
— Lamar Alexander
It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.
— Frederick Marryat
You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicinehope. — Shannon L. Alder
One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
— Richard Francis Burton
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
— Jack London
One day, I want to get rich enough so that every time I walk into a room I can release a dozen doves.
— Daniel Tosh
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.
— Donald Sutherland
Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.
— David Bronstein
