Twelve Quotes

551 Twelve quotes by 468 unique authors

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down… — Phyllis Diller
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but… — Umberto Eco
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and… — Black Elk
What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard? — Tom Felton
After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it. — Larry Hagman
This is embarrassing and personal, but once a month, since I was twelve years old, I go to my favorite jewelry store and try on… — Jennifer Love Hewitt
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. — James Hillman
I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted… — Bruce Jenner
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. — Samuel Johnson
When I was born I owed twelve dollars. — George S. Kaufman
I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old. — Kesha
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. — Ed Koch
I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this… — Leo Kottke
I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which… — Leo Kottke
The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for… — Jonathan Kozol
I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work. — Shia LaBeouf
Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed… — Jessica Lange
'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks. — Spike Lee
People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to… — Christopher Meloni
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the… — Marilyn Monroe
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime. — Haruki Murakami
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day… — Earl Nightingale
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. — Jules Renard
Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers… — Little Richard
If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty. — Chris Rock

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