Twelve Quotes · Page 2

At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.

— Suzanne Collins

She couldn’t have been more than twelve years old. In her hands was a sign that said RED-HEADS RULE! with a little…

— Kiera Cass

I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend…

— Mary J. Miller

One does silly things when one is twelve.

— Cassandra Clare

I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us…

— John C. Maxwell

The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want…

— Mel Brooks

I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want…

— Casey Spooner

I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running…

— Amanda Palmer

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years

— Alison Lohman

There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.

— Rudyard Kipling

I believe the very best money is made at the market turns. Everyone says you get killed trying to pick tops and…

— Paul Tudor Jones

I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents…

— Meg Rosoff

I was excited about getting my first tattoo, but I was only twelve, so I had to hide it from my mother.

— Mark Wahlberg

I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's…

— Robert Cormier

This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard flight...one, from...here to there. We'll be cruising at a height of ten feet, going up…

— Eddie Izzard

Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say.

— Kobayashi Issa

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks,…

— Jessica Lange

Moon Phase Astrology is a valuable resource on a neglected topic. Through the use of descriptive and poetic titles, insightful text, and…

— Christopher Penczak

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

— Honore de Balzac

Rose: Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas! The Doctor: Who says I'm not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve? Rose: [shocked] What? The Doctor:…

— Steven Moffat

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

— Steven Spielberg

Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . .…

— Paul Harding

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on…

— Duncan Sheik

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

— Patrick Rafter