Eleven Quotes - Page 4

• If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.

  Dave Barry

  Home, Boys, Leader

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• Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs...I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Song, Clever, Expression

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• Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

  Paulo Coelho

  Happiness, Happy, Miracle

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• But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion. There was nothing even to bury. I was eleven then. Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.

  Suzanne Collins

  Running, Father, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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• The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since the age of eleven, when I started at grammar school. Not a day would pass without somebody I knew turning out to be adopted or illegitimate, or to have mothers who were about to hare off with some bloke, or to have dead fathers and shabby stepfathers. What busy lives they led. How I envied their excuses for introspection, their ear-marked receptacles for every just antagonism and noble loyalty.

  Martin Amis

  Loyalty, Mother, Children

  Martin Amis (1973). “The Rachel papers”, Jonathan Cape

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• I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven?

  Heather Brewer

  Home, Night, Want

  Heather Brewer (2008). “Eighth Grade Bites #1: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.10, Penguin

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• I've gotten thrown out of thirty-seven straight games,' he said. 'Once or twice, I've had to go really crazy. I ran onto the court with eleven seconds left once and stole the ball from the other team. It wasn't pretty. But, you know. I have a streak to maintain.

  John Green

  Crazy, Team, Games

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.54, Penguin

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• No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.

  Lionel Shriver

  Pain, Real, Years

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.367, Profile Books

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• Medium clever,” Simon acknowledged. “Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.” “I’m always so glad I have no idea what you’re vacantly chattering about,” said Jace. “It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

  Cassandra Clare

  Clever, Ocean, Ideas

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1530, Simon and Schuster

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• Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world." "Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike." The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth.

  Gordon Korman

  Sweet, Hunger Strike, Years

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The 39 Clues #2: One False Note”, p.89, Scholastic Inc.

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• The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up.

  Douglas Adams

  Party, Years, Leaving

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.410, Pan Macmillan

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• I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.

  Wilkie Collins

  Christian, Morning, Prayer

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.1379, e-artnow sro

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• And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, World, May

  William Shakespeare (2010). “As You Like It”, p.47, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Soul, Body

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 10, 2016

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• No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Important

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

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• It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Mind, Eleven Minutes

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• I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. "Save the drama for your mama " I told her just like an eleven-year-old.

  Charlaine Harris

  Drama, Years, Firsts

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1699, Penguin

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• Un momento con una donna capricciosa vale undici anni di vita noiosa. A single moment with a fiery female is worth eleven years of a boring life.

  Sarah MacLean

  Years, Female, Boring

  Sarah MacLean (2012). “Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart: Number 3 in series”, p.3, Hachette UK

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• I was on my back, looking up at Morelli through cobwebs, and my first thought was that the 7-Eleven victim had exacted revenge on me, and I’d been stun gunned. The cobwebs cleared, and I discounted stun gunning. “What happened?” I asked Morelli. “You fainted.” “That’s ridiculous.” “I agree, but if someone sent me a dead woman I might faint, too.” He was down on one knee, bending over me. “Are you ready to get up?” “I need a moment.” “Don’t take too long. People will think I’m proposing.

  Janet Evanovich

  Revenge, Thinking, Long

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.619, Bantam

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• J.T Woodland, known as “the cute one” in The Corporation’s seventh-grade boy band, Boyz Will B Boyz. Due to the success of their triple-platinum hit, “Let Me Shave Your Legs Tonight, Girl,” Boyz Will B Boyz ruled the charts for a solid eleven months before hitting puberty and losing ground to Hot Vampire Boyz.

  Libba Bray

  Cute, Girl, Boys

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• may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.

  e. e. cummings

  Beautiful, Wise, Running

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• When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!

  Paulo Coelho

  Falling In Love, Sides, Minutes

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

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• How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?

  Paulo Coelho

  Minutes, Eleven Minutes

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “Eleven Minutes: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Second Chance, World, Sometimes

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• In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.

  Paulo Coelho

  Feelings, Blame Someone, Responsible

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