I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast. — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Sexual freedom and liberation has to be of your own making. I'm stunned when I hear about friends' children, ten or twelve… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
Great soul of Gandhi, cover your ears. You will not want to hear this! Listen, you inbred piece of Ku Klux Krap!… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want… — Jimmy Chamberlin Copy Share Image
The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones.… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life,… — Margaret Meagher Copy Share Image
I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep muddy water and… — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs, ... Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson… — Tom Bailey Copy Share Image
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
The only real difference between shooting 'Firefly' and 'Serenity' was that on 'Serenity,' we had a lot more freedom with time. When… — Jewel Staite Copy Share Image
When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls. — Plato Copy Share Image
Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt. — Eminem Copy Share Image
I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image