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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
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
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 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
Darwin, as twelve minutes was the
— Thea Hayes
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
"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
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
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
...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
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
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
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 turned down twelve films last year ... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
— Shia Labeouf
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
- 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