Twelve Quotes

551 Twelve quotes by 468 unique authors

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage. — David Lee Roth
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits… — Rod Serling
If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. — Herbert Spencer
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids. — Steven Spielberg
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. — Igor Stravinsky
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48.… — James Thurber
You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out. — Ron White
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses;… — Charlotte Bronte
Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by… — Marilynne Robinson
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of… — Dylan Thomas
Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl… — P.D. James
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. — Charles M. Schulz
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the… — Albert Camus
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife… — Hunter S. Thompson
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole… — Christopher Morley
Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has… — Elizabeth Scott
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure… — A A Milne
There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes. — Leo Tolstoy
I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your… — Jean Webster
But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to… — Mark Twain
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise… — Khaled Hosseini
It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which… — Charlotte Bronte
I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a… — Shirley Jackson

Who Wrote These Twelve Quotes

468 authors contributed a total of 551 Twelve Quotes, led by these top contributors: