coalesce’…” “Three’s a

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

— David Mitchell

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

— Michel de Montaigne

“Triump is just a little umph added to try.”

— Tim Owens

“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that…

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Jim Rohn

Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible…

— Joseph J. Romm

I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.

— Julianne Malveaux

Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly…

— Richard Engel

My favourite song of Elton's is... it's a tricky one for me. I'm a proper fan and I've probably seen him in concert about…

— Matt Lucas

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

— Richard Francis Burton

Well. We’ll just have to hope that this wasn’t a loup-garou, I guess.” “If it was a louper, you’d know,” Bob said wisely. “In…

— Jim Butcher

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

— George Herbert

I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've…

— Joss Whedon

Saiman picked up a coffee mug, stared at it, and hurled it against the wall. It shattered into a dozen pieces. We looked at…

— Ilona Andrews

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