Dozen Quotes

580 Dozen quotes by 502 unique authors

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children… — Marilyn vos Savant
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis… — Marilyn vos Savant
'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to… — Rob Sheffield
I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts. — Nate Silver
I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500… — Steven Spielberg
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. — John Steinbeck
I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great… — Patrick Stewart
I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none. — Gene Tierney
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. — Lope de Vega
I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me. — Rufus Wainwright
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her… — Ayelet Waldman
The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle… — Regina Brett
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have… — Paul Stamets
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable. — Robert Anton Wilson
What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no… — Isaac Asimov
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count… — Henry David Thoreau
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a… — S. J. Perelman
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them… — Ray Bradbury
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think… — C.S. Lewis
Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full… — Joan Bauer
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time. — Jack Kerouac
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and… — Hunter S. Thompson
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so… — Robert A. Heinlein
Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs. — Louisa May Alcott

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