A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a… — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always,… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ only had twelve, you know, and one of them was a double. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I sat down to think things over a bit. While I was sitting there, a little kid about eleven or twelve years-old… — Carl Panzram Copy Share Image
I like it when you buy something and pay with a credit card, they put your credit card on the receipt, but… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I didn't see much besides Melbourne and a quick trip down to the Twelve Apostles, but all the Aussies I encountered were… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture,… — Richard Rossi Copy Share Image
We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image