Dozen Quotes

580 Dozen quotes by 502 unique authors

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 Montenegroâ€™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
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

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