Twelve Quotes

551 quotes by 483 authors

Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or… — Tom Baker
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. — Ansel Adams
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world. — Bruce Barton
Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you… — Mario Batali
In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I… — Lewis Black
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. — Erma Bombeck
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for… — Joseph Brodsky
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that… — Smedley Butler
I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and… — Herman Cain
You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found… — Johnny Cash
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do… — Marv Levy
When you play spin the bottle, if they don't want to kiss you they have to give you a quarter. Well, hell, by the time… — Phyllis Diller
I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people… — Maya Angelou
Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something… — Margaret Meagher
we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two… — Thomas Jefferson
I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be… — Adolf Hitler
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently… — Thomas Hood

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