Quotes of: Twelve Keyword

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

Christopher Eccleston

The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.

Cordwainer Smith

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.

Joe Pantoliano

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

Christina Milian

Communities are not built of friends, or of groups of people with similar styles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand each other. They are built of people who feel they are part of something that is bigger than themselves: a shared g...

A City Year: On the Streets and in the Neighborhoods with Twelve Young Community Service Volunteers

And when I had finished painting & looked at that poor leatherjacket which now lay dead on the table I began to wonder whether, as each fish died, the world was reduced in the amount of love that you might know for such a creature. Whether there was ...

Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate.

The Atheistic Platform: Twelve Lectures by Chales Bradlaugh, Annie Besant, Alice Bradlaugh, A. B. Moss, C. C. Cattell, G. Standring, E. Aveling, D.Sc.

I hated cats. I was a dog lover," Des says with a shrug. "What's the point of a cat? They're not affectionate. But that's because it's not my cat. I mean, your wife wouldn't jump on my lap. That's because she's your wife, not mine. Until you have you...

Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banalit...

The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

The life of the hero of the tale is, at the outset, overshadowed by bitter and hopeless struggles; one doubts that the little swineherd will ever be able to vanquish the awful Dragon with the twelve heads. And yet, ...truth and courage prevail and th...

Once Upon a Time: Forty Hungarian Folk-Tales

Rufus T. Firefly: [to Trentino] Now, how about lending this country twenty million dollars, you old skinflint? Ambassador Trentino: Twenty million dollars is a lot of money. I'd have to take that up with my Minister of Finance. Rufus T. Firefly: Well...

Duck Soup

Mikael Blomkvist: How come a 23-year-old can be a ward of the state? Lisbeth Salander: I'm mentally incompetent and can't manage daily life. Mikael Blomkvist: Since when have they said that? Lisbeth Salander: Since I was twelve. Mikael Blomkvist: Som...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Twelve minutes. I can give you that.

The House of Hades

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

King George V

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.

Rooney Mara

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

Homaro Cantu

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

Bruce Barton

I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

Dallas Roberts

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

Jules Renard