Eleven Quotes - Page 6

• I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.

  Norm Sloan

  Funny, Basketball, Hate

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• I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Eight, Games

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• Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Religious, Children, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Homer, Euripides, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1929). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Summer, Winter, Bread

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• Germany are a very difficult team to play... they have eleven internationals out there today.

  Steve Lomas

  Funny, Soccer, Team

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• Things I wonder about the FBI's list of the "Ten Most Wanted" criminals: When they catch a guy and he comes off the list, does number eleven automatically move up? And does he see it as a promotion? Does he call his criminal friends and say, "I made it, Bruno. I'm finally on the list"?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Moving, Humor

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.573, Hachette UK

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• I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Changing, Glasses, Fifteen

  "Maya Angelou Always Rented A Hotel Room Just For Writing" by Julie Zeveloff, www.businessinsider.com. May 28, 2014.

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• Some coaches spend their time trying to get an overview of all eleven defenders. I prefer to zero in on one guy at a time to get the right clue.

  Sid Gillman

  Football, Zero, Nfl

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• At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.

  John T. Flynn

  Running, Russia, Hands

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• Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

  Zach Braff

  Gay, Men, Bunch

  "See 'The Broken Hearts Club' with someone special" by Paul Clinton, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2000.

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• I mean, what's eleven million people now days?

  Zach Braff

  Mean, People, Millions

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• When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington’s birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Style, February

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2011). “The Discoverers”, p.9, Vintage

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• I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am like a fool hearing you call me 'Dear.' I offended two men today by leaving them coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not theirs. When I am with you I leave aside my contemptuous, suspicious nature. I wish I felt your head on my shoulder.

  James Joyce

  Past, Men, Two

  James Joyce (1976). “Selected letters of James Joyce”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Success, Work, Order

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• It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Country, Years, Land

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.1

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• There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.

  Dan DeCarlo

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• When I was eleven, I just got good.

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Chess

  "My 60 Memorable Games". Book by Bobby Fischer, 1969.

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• My daughter wanted a new pair of trainers. I told her You're eleven, make your own!

  Jeremy Hardy

  Daughter, Pairs, Trainers

  "The News Quiz", BBC Radio 4, July 2002.

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• I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.

  Marton Csokas

  Trying, Looks, Nine

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

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• On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Scales, Rate, Ten

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• At the end of the day, the Arsenal fans demand that we put eleven players on the pitch

  Don Howe

  Soccer, Player, The End Of The Day

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• Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Two, Giving, Mind Blowing

  Twitter post from Dec 7, 2011

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• I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government an official note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock, that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and consequently this country is at war with Germany.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Country, Morning, War

  "Neville Chamberlain's declaration of war". www.theguardian.com. September 03, 1939.

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• Seattle’s Moraine not only make Washington State proud, but also the whole American progressive music scene joyful. ... It’s simply an impressive dead on eleven song tour de force. ... GET THIS! Highly Recommended!

  Lee Henderson

  Song, Proud, Washington State

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• At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.

  Todd Solondz

  Reading, Writing, Creative

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