Dozen Quotes

The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.

I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.

Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.

At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains in front of you, when you know that you have to a goal a few hundred, a few dozen meters when you are right in front. This is the time of happiness.

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup,
which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers.
The idea? To decorate the studio,
now there's hope of Gauguin living here.
I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

The California I knew, old rancho California, is gone. It just doesn't exist, except maybe in little pockets. I lived on the edge of the Mojave Desert, an area that used to be farm country. There were all these fresh-produce stands with avocados and date palms. You could get a dozen artichokes for a buck or something. Totally wiped out now.

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

I would order a dozen bats and there were times they'd come back with handles at each end.

At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.

In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.

But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.

One day, I want to get rich enough so that every time I walk into a room I can release a dozen doves.

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find.

Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.

A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions of the world and the hurdles of their own vices. A professor had said that what saved writers is that they, like politicians, had the illusion of destiny that allowed them to overcome obstacles no matter how nominal their work.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.

Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.

I like my men like I like my roses . . . by the dozen.

Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.