Dozen Quotes
There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.
I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.
Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.
Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.
I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.
A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.
Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.
I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.
I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.
Can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were only two pogroms there. What's two pogroms?
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids.
But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.
I know I have a first-rate mind, but that's no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.
Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.
There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around.
It seems to me conspiracy is at the heart of dozens of TV dramas currently on. Maybe that itself is some kind of conspiracy.
....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.
Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.
I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.
What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books.
Set out to do three or four things this year with gusto and excellence, rather than doing a dozen things just sufficiently. Trust me on this.
Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.
A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.
I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them.
No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.
Google "Donald Trump Iraq." And you will see the dozens of sources which verify that he was for the invasion of Iraq.
Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.
No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.
