Dozen Quotes - Page 23

• A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.

  Carl Shapiro

  Running, Aggravation, After Hours

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• A dozen swimming events have already been completed in the Olympic competition. I wonder where they got the name 'Speedo.' It doesn't sound like a bathing suit, it sounds like a breakfast cereal for meth addicts.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Swimming, Cereal

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• An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating.

  Terry Gross

  Mother, Self, Differences

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political stuff. I write a weekly feature. I express myself. But when time comes to make music [with the] same absolutely unleashing of total honesty zero inhibitions, it just flows like a stream of conscientiousness because I will not be silenced no matter what my point might be.

  Ted Nugent

  Zero, Honesty, Writing

  "Ted Nugent Exclusive All Access Interview Motor City Madman Shutup & Jam P2". Interview with Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. July 22, 2014.

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• Im as country as a dozen eggs.

  Elvin Bishop

  Country, Eggs

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• Traveling around Ethiopia, I saw dozens of abandoned textile factories. People kept asking me to help them find work. So I thought I could make use of my experience in fashion to commercialize their products outside of Ethiopia.

  Liya Kebede

  Fashion, People, Asking

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• While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

  Liya Kebede

  Husband, Blood, Ultrasounds

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• I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels. A few years ago, I was convinced of that - I thought I truly was possessed by the devil. I remember sitting through the Exorcist a dozen times, saying to myself, 'Yeah, I can relate to that. I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it is - Satan.”

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Thinking, Years, Wish

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• Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

  Rick Perlstein

  Book, Careers

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Contentment, Faces, Spirit

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Family, Way, Happens

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• It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

  Joseph Addison

  Passing Away, Together, Cards

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.315

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• I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Flower, Book

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.208, Race Point Pub

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• I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Character, Years

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• Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

  Carolyn Wells

  Next Week, Two, Giving

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

  George Herbert

  Tongue, Foolish

  George Herbert (1862). “The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse”

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• And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

  Agatha Christie

  Taken, House, Bottles

  Agatha Christie (1980). “Remembered Death”, Pocket

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• [Henry Miller] was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.

  Erica Jong

  Real, Writing, People

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• On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.

  Doris Lessing

  Horse, War, Divorce

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• Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Book, Writing, People

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• Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

  Rosalind Russell

  Movie, Giving, Theatre

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• There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted to suicide, but I am glad I did not give way, for I have always felt that the last half of my life would somehow atone for the first half, and I still think it may ... It is not possible to live in this world without suffering unless one is a born stone. But it is also possible to have a great deal of happiness in spite of the suffering.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Suicide, Thinking, Giving

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.94, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I do believe that half a dozen commonplace attorneys could so mystify and misconstrue the Ten Commandments, and so confuse Moses' surroundings on Mount Sinai, that the great law-giver, if he returned to this planet, would doubt his own identity, abjure every one of his deliverances, yea, even commend the very sins he so clearly forbade his people.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Believe, Law, People

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• In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

  A. J. Liebling

  Food, Loss, Light

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• In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Writing, Men, Doe

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