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It is better to read twelve lines of a book with the utmost intensity and thus to penetrate into them to the full — Thomas Bernhard

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers
the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons. — P.G. Wodehouse

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.

The problem, I decided, is that most human beings between the ages of twelve and fifteen look like their needs are special (retarded). — Diana Joseph

How many happy people do you think there are in the world? Twelve? — Daniel Handler

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce. — Henry Ward Beecher

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie. — Ray Bradbury

Only in the first hour of the night can I become human, while the male dove is busy with the twelve dead.'
Black Book 2 — C. G. Jung

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck. — Claudia Gray

At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at 24. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Twelve days wil be heaps of time. You don't want to over-reherse these things, otherwise you lose that rough edge — Michael Gerard Bauer

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama. — Ann Coulter

When I was twelve, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report, "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far," and this was often the case. — Oliver Sacks

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun. — Matt Stone

But most of all I'd like to thank the twelve-year-old me, for not giving up. I did tell you it would get better. — Charlotte Stein

Tobin had spent the first twelve years of his life living a lie, and the last two trying to ignore the truth. — Lynn Flewelling

Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes — Curt Flood

Twelve barrels of water are required to make one barrel of bitumen. This produces 400 million gallons a day of toxic wastewater at the tar sand mines. — Samuel Avery

If the Christians of this country would only rise up, we could evangelize America in twelve months. — D.L. Moody

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

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months. — King George V

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

The Great Gatsby' [ ... ] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [ ... ] — J.D. Salinger

The zodiac's twelve signs are said to represent powerful archetypes that are universal in theme. — Bil Tierney

By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want. — Jane Austen

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

Darwin, as twelve minutes was the — Thea Hayes

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

After twelve years of trying, I just decided to stop missing. — Aspen Matis

At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played. — Elizabeth Bowen

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve. — Elbert Hubbard

She kissed him tonight, just like she had the first time twelve years ago, with everything she had. — D.D. Ayres

I always drew. I don't remember a time when I didn't draw. And I actually drew comics from the age of maybe ten through twelve. — Trina Robbins

Know what the best thing your true love can give you is?" I asked him.
"What?" said Dash.
"True love. — Rachel Cohn

So long as clients lived in the area, she guaranteed to let them know if they or a local loved one was bound to die in the next twelve months. — Maggie Stiefvater

Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two." — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

For twelve years, I've been trying to make him just one of the guys. He's not. — Kristan Higgins

I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast. — Gregory Corso

The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try. — William Shakespeare

Twelve is the border between childhood and old. — Lindsay Eagar

It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world. — W.C. Fields

That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business. — Paul Kearney

Twelve-hundred-dollar chairs and wore sleek designer shoes with tassels. Gone were the days of thick rubber soles and function over form, — Michael Connelly

We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years. (Upon exiting the Lascaux cave, France) — Pablo Picasso

Anne had many friends and male admirers by the time she was twelve. — Ferris Smithers

He did not kiss her, for the hour was half-past twelve, and the car was passing by the stables of Buckingham Palace. — E. M. Forster

Of the twenty-eight thousand German fighter pilots to see combat in WWII, only twelve hundred survived the war. — Adam Makos

The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons. — Heather Demetrios

What was it about this infuriating woman that reduced him to a twelve-year-old at the pool? — Codi Gary

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Twelve men conducted the investigation, gathering as on a knitting-needle the accursed stitches of this complicated case all over Moscow. — Mikhail Bulgakov

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet. — Winston Churchill

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. — Robert Frost

...in the end it was better to have the love of a confessed killer, than to have no love at all, especially when you were just twelve years old. — Keith Crews

Within twelve hours of the Sunday Herald hitting the streets, Golgotham suddenly found itself besieged by the young, bored, and semi-affluent. — Nancy A. Collins

Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill.
The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader's face
Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill. — Allen Tate

Ms. Fang is the nicest, sweetest teacher at Scary School. She only ate twelve kids last year. — Derek The Ghost

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

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

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one. — John F. Kennedy

Believe it when you see it.
Believe it when a twelve-year-old rolls a grenade into the room. — Brian Turner

Twelve-year-old Islay. Good stuff if you liked peat, smoke, earth, rain, despair, and the Atlantic Ocean, and who doesn't like that? — Adrian McKinty

And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be. — Jane Yolen

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

I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to twelve-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt. — Umberto Eco

I didn't want to have to say this, but I double-dog dare you." I couldn't stop the grin. "What are you? Twelve?" "What are you? Forty?" He — Aileen Erin

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

If you keep the gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It is a rule. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

...for the last twelve months I've been more single than a one-dollar bill."~Sammy — Zack Love

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance. — Joss Whedon

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

You are! There ain't no Thirteenth! Ain't naught but the Twelve, that's truth! Yeah, I been to Verrar a couple times, met up with lads and lasses — Scott Lynch

Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations. — John Twelve Hawks

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind. — Sandra Cisneros

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years? — John William Draper

My deep religiosity [ ... ] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books. — Albert Einstein

The fish was a twelve-inch rainbow trout with a huge hump on its back. A hunchback trout. — Richard Brautigan

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town. — Elie Wiesel

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. — Charles M. Schulz

The trip back home was uneventful and over in only twelve words. — Jasper Fforde

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

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

I turned down twelve films last year ... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work. — Shia Labeouf

What are you, twelve?" "The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man." "Irish — Nora Roberts

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

Twelve down, like a hundred thousand left to go. — Pittacus Lore

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain. — Homaro Cantu

In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool. — M.J. Rose

Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path. — John Twelve Hawks

Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them. — Linda Perlstein

Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys with no visible means of support. — Ralphie May

Anyone who doesn't laugh has something on their conscience, you can be sure of that.
- from: 'The Twelve Brothers — Philip Pullman

I've learned that the more vulnerable I allow myself to be, the more in control of myself I really am. — Anonymous Twelve Step Recovery Members

One of the good things about being twelve or younger is that you tend to believe that you'll live forever. — Dean Koontz

The twelve royal gifts of birth belong to every child, born anywhere, at anytime - — Charlene Costanzo

I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano. — Rachael Yamagata

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?' — Cliff Robertson

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent. — Tug McGraw