Quotes of: Twelve Keyword

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Jefferson Davis

In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Go to Zillicks down the block. It has three booths at the back. Go in the middle one and wait. When you lamp me turning the pages of the directory outside, shove your money in the return-coin slot and walk out. Take it easy. Don't let the druggist se...

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

We find a model for learning how to live in stories about heroism. The heroic quest is about saying yes to yourself and, in so doing, becoming more fully alive and more effective in the world. For the hero's journey is first about taking a journey to...

Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World

Jeffrey Goines: When I was institutionalized, my brain was studied exhaustively in the guise of mental health. I was interrogated, I was x-rayed, I was examined *thoroughly*. [turns head and coughs] Jeffrey Goines: Then, they took everything about me...

Twelve Monkeys

Sally Albright: Well, basically it's the same dream I've been having since I was twelve. Harry Burns: Which is? Sally Albright: Okay, there's this guy... Harry Burns: What does he look like? Sally Albright: I don't know, he's just sort of faceless. H...

When Harry Met Sally...

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.

Elijah

All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.

Guards! Guards!

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.

The Hobbit

Twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and three cents in coins, from six centuries.

Beautiful Redemption

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

Rube Goldberg

She was strength and power and so many things he’d pretended for twelve years he didn’t miss, didn’t need.

Hearts Under Siege

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Infinite in All Directions

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

The Man With Two Left Feet

The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.

Something Real

It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.

Twelve Angry Men

It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was...perfect.

Twenty Boy Summer

They say there are twelve steps to quitting something. But what if that something is playing with a slinky? Seems like you should be able to quit playing with a slinky using no steps.

Xazaqazax

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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 twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!

Tom Baker