Eleven Quotes - Page 14

• Remember, your body is a temple, not a 7-Eleven.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Temples, Body, Remember

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• My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

  John Keats

  Love, Pain, Passion

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• I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

  Truman Capote

  Years, Lovely, Honor

  Truman Capote (2012). “The Grass Harp”, p.9, Vintage

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• Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.

  Groucho Marx

  Brother, Father, Years

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", 1933.

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• I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny

  Lita Ford

  Play, Blood, Feelings

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• When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.

  Elana Dykewomon

  Honesty, Lying, Hero

  Elana Dykewomon (2013). “Beyond the Pale: A Novel”, p.42, Open Road Media

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• Playing with the Who is the biggest rush there is. At eleven years old I used to go to bed dreaming about what I'm doing now. I don't know how many people can say that.

  Zak Starkey

  Dream, Years, People

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• During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on the same rug - while praying to the same God - with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the deeds of the white Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana.

  Malcolm X

  Eye, Past, White

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.391, Ballantine Books

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• I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation.

  Paul Auster

  Character, Math, Intelligent

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• Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Passion, Sleep

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• Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.

  Carol Leifer

  Morning, Sex, Funny Marriage

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• It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.

  Gabrielle Hamilton

  Writing, Son, Garden

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• Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Loneliness, Inspiration

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• Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Heaven, Matter

  "Miss Whiplash pulls it off" by John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2003.

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• I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

  Mia Couto

  Years, Tears, Saws

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• Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.

  Elaine Stritch

  Wine, Glasses, Shopping

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• I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Age, Abstract Painting, Negative

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• I didn't drive eleven hours across the state of Texas to watch my cholesterol.

  Robb Walsh

  Texas, Watches, Hours

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• If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Running, Wind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Feet, My Birthday, Three

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Simple, Feet

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• The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Country, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.277

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  I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out... he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood "my name is Ice Cube."

  Ice Cube

  Girl, Brother, Men

  "The Believer Interview: Ice Cube". Interview with Linda Saetre, blog.longreads.com. December 2003.

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, Money

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• Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.

  Shannen Doherty

  Frustrated, Granted, Right Now

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