Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The United States found dozens of billions of dollars for military action in Iraq, so it should certainly be able to find… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away… — William Golding Copy Share Image
A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
A man walked into a shop and asked, "How much are your eggs?" He said "£1.40 a dozen". He then asked: "How… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen… — Drew Busby Copy Share Image
Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Andrée De Jongh story led me to other stories of women who joined the Resistance in France. I found literally dozens of… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one… — Lee Trevino Copy Share Image
There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places,… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
On a personal level, I send out about 20 thank-you notes a day to staffers, on all levels. And every six weeks… — Douglas Conant Copy Share Image
I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments,… — Henry Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
