Eleven Quotes - Page 10

• Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

  Grandma Moses

  Grandmother, Grandchildren, Thinking

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• I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

  Iggy Azalea

  America, Wanted, Known

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Smoking, Suing, Three

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• The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.

  James Pike

  Sunday, Hours, Clock

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• At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious in the world. After I had learned the fifth proposition, my brother told me that it was generally considered difficult, but I had found no difficulty whatsoever. This was the first time it had dawned on me that I might have some intelligence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Brother, Science, Age

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.25, Routledge

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• There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my car, which wasn't insured. My wallet was in there, and I couldn't call AAA, because I only had $7 in my bank account. It was one of those moments where I was like, 'O.K., I literally have nothing right now.

  Whitney Cummings

  Keys, Shopping, Car

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• I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.

  Bert Campaneris

  Knows

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• Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Writing, Play

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• One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.

  Geoff Davis

  Years, Ideas, Two

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• The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.

  David Sobel

  Nature, Heart, Childhood

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• Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.

  Jackson Browne

  Redneck, Honey, Introducing

  Song: Red Neck Friend, Album: For Everyman, 1973

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• From the three, you then use one to make eight ones. You add those ones to the three, and you get one-three base eight, or, in other words, In base ten you have eleven, and you take away seven. And seven from eleven is four. Now go back to the sixty-fours, you're left with two.

  Tom Lehrer

  Two, Eight, Add

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• Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

  James Taylor

  Home, Night, Soldier

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• One and one is eleven.

  Frank Zappa

  Dense

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• The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

  Frank Ocean

  Song, Jobs, Writing

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Strong, Years, Catholic

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• My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

  Bernie Taupin

  Mother, Father, War

  "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

  Vance Havner

  Church Service, Boredom, Twelve

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• When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.

  Vanessa Marano

  Lasts, Projects, Casts

  "Switched at Birth: Q&A with Switched at Birth's Vanessa Marano". ABC Spark Interview, www.abcspark.ca. February 29, 2012.

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• I learnt to drive at around eleven years old. In an old jeep on a field in Colorado. There were lots of ditches. I could barely see over the steering wheel.

  David Lauren

  Years, Colorado, Jeeps

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• Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

  Jonathan Swift

  Law, Possession

  "Works". Volume XVII, p. 270,

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• Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Son, Patriotism

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.627

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• I've been involved with Shrek for eleven years, so you'd better like Shrek if you're going to be involved with it for eleven years. I do, I like it a great deal, so I enjoy it.

  Mike Myers

  Years, Enjoy, Deals

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.

  Olive Schreiner

  Children, Ideas, People

  Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.

  Julie Newmar

  Feet, Pounds, Looks

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