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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
— Samuel Johnson
Winners train, losers complain. Give me twelve players that want to win and they will find a way to win.
— Red Auerbach
All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.
— Terry Pratchett
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
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
Why, then, are we locking kids up in an involuntary network with strangers for twelve years?
— John Taylor Gatto
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
I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.
— Isabel Allende
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
It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!
— Michael Owen Bruce
As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.
— Ann Coulter
I said no to having a beer. I once had a beer with my brother when I was twelve, and I just didn't like it. It's really that simple for me. [pp.37]
— Stephen Chbosky
Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl.
Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered.
Take your time.
Then imagine God.
M. Barin, poet — Hakan Nesser
Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered.
Take your time.
Then imagine God.
M. Barin, poet — Hakan Nesser
If the Christians of this country would only rise up, we could evangelize America in twelve months.
— D.L. Moody
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'm not an idiot! I'm just twelve. I'm a twelve-year-old girl and neither of those facts are my fault.
— Ally Carter
We also mark what's ours. And as I'm not going to see you for twelve hours, I think I'll leave a little more all over you.
— J.R. Ward
Aidan and Carter had shown up about fifteen minutes ago with a pressure washer, lots of detergent, and a bad case of being mentally twelve.
— Lauren Gilley
A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.
— Robert M. Hutchins
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
— Herbert Spencer
Yes, royals know how to do things beyond counting our twelve toes.
— Mary E. Pearson
I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
— Dane Cook
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
She was strength and power and so many things he'd pretended for twelve years he didn't miss, didn't need.
— Natalie J. Damschroder
After several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer.
— Kate Smith
On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve.
— George Strait
George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.
— John Osborne
I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.
— Errol Flynn
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD TRIAL PRODIGY JUNE IPARIS BECOMES YOUNGEST STUDENT EVER ADMITTED TO DRAKE UNIVERSITY, TO BE OFFICIALLY INDUCTED NEXT WEEK.
— Marie Lu
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
When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
— George S. Kaufman
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
— Ignazio Silone
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 must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.
— J.K. Rowling
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
I don't talk down to kids. Usually someone my age who's talking to a ten or twelve year old is yelling at them.
— Mike Vallely
The twelve royal gifts of birth belong to every child, born anywhere, at anytime -
— Charlene Costanzo
There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.
— Leo Tolstoy
I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano.
— Rachael Yamagata
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
God's nothing more than a twelve-year-old kid with an ant farm. He's always watching, but He's never gonna do anything.
— John Constantine
She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.
— Alice Hoffman
He clearly knew how dangerous it was to have an excited twelve-year-old handling a powerful weapon.
— Isaac Asimov
I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve.
— Fashawn
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
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
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
We cannot defeat him. We can only buy you time ... Twelve minutes ... I can give you that
— Rick Riordan
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
— Erma Bombeck
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
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
— Honore De Balzac
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
Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
— Fred Hoyle
One does silly things when one is twelve.
— Cassandra Clare
I'm worth twelve of you, Malfoy.
— J.K. Rowling
How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?
— John William Draper
We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!
— Roald Dahl
An only child is never twelve.
— Enid Bagnold
She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.
— Rick Riordan
My deep religiosity [ ... ] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
— Albert Einstein
That's what scares me, Gideon. You don't know what you're worth."
"Actually, I do. Twelve bill - " "Shut up. — Sylvia Day
"Actually, I do. Twelve bill - " "Shut up. — Sylvia Day
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.
— Lorde
The fish was a twelve-inch rainbow trout with a huge hump on its back. A hunchback trout.
— Richard Brautigan
I didn't look like a woman who might need twelve condoms.
— Cheryl Strayed
After twelve years of living in Hawaii, I'd gotten a serious case of 'rock fever.' I just couldn't live on an island any longer.
— Tess Gerritsen
Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.
— John Twelve Hawks
I was exercising by doing twelve-ounce curls in an attempt to balance my electrolytes.
— Craig Johnson
I turned down twelve films last year ... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
— Shia Labeouf
Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.
— Joe Pantoliano
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
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
— Christina Milian
Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew up, I wanted to be an artist.
— Graeme Base
I always said I acted like a twelve-year old, so I decided to write like a twelve-year old.
— Terri Bertha
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
Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals.
— Andrew Tobias
If you say 'Good Morning' in America and it's five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit.
— Bernie Ecclestone
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
I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars.
— George Carlin