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 Copy Share Image
Saiman picked up a coffee mug, stared at it, and hurled it against the wall. It shattered into a dozen pieces. We… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it,… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another. — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
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… — Matt Lucas Copy Share Image
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things! — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to live in New York, a city that offers so many options for lunch. I can pick up dumplings from… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
