Dozen Quotes

580 Dozen quotes by 502 unique authors

Poison." he said, deadpan. "That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much." She's a treasure." Bram agreed, blithely ignoing… — Chris Wooding
you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the… — Charles Bukowski
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can… — C.S. Lewis
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened. — Arthur C. Clarke
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it,… — Marilynne Robinson
Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when… — Arundhati Roy
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one. — C.S. Lewis
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen! — Michel de Montaigne
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a… — Jonathan Stroud
Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say… — Samuel R. Delany
Most people go through their whole lives," John went on, "and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and dozens, and you… — Martha Beck
And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again, until one night… — Jennifer Weiner
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so… — Chuck Palahniuk
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth).… — Abraham Maslow
What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles… — Jennifer Donnelly
We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents… — Ursula K. Le Guin
So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread… — Robin McKinley
I'll be getting you for this,' Halt had told him as he dabbed the diguisting mixture on the worst of the cuts. 'That soot is… — John Flanagan
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers,… — Kate Douglas Wiggin
A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I hear.… — Jerry Spinelli
It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley. — Ally Carter
My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that… — Guy Gavriel Kay

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