Twelve Quotes

At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.

I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened.

I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill. The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader's face Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill.

An only child is never twelve.

I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.

If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years

Why only twelve disciples? Go out and get thousands.

We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

The Smythe-Smith musicale. Thankfully, it came around just once per year, because Hyacinth was quite certain it would take a full twelve months for her ears to recover.

I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.

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 and sisters - twelve children.

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.

So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

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 is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says.

No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

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 kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

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

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.

It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up.

Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

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 twelve years.

I have been extremely fortunate to have incredibly special fans support my work throughout my twelve year career.

There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?

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

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

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.