i felt my being flutter. each tousled head that came through the door i wanted to be his, but no and on,… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Over the years, my husband and I have sent two dozen or more girls to college and helped them with whatever else… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas.… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I'm already waiting when Puck gets to the top of the cliffs. I'm not the only one; about two dozen race tourists… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers… — Dominic West Copy Share Image
As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Google "Donald Trump Iraq." And you will see the dozens of sources which verify that he was for the invasion of Iraq. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a… — Clifford Sifton Copy Share Image
Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it,… — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist. — Edward Dmytryk Copy Share Image
I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
