Twelve Quotes - Page 25

• I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.

  Cecily McMillan

  Mother, Struggle, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Ed Koch had the best line: if you agree with me nine out of twelve times, you should vote for me. If you agree with me twelve out of twelve times, you should find a psychiatrist.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Lines, Nine, Vote

  Source: gawker.com

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• In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

  Rod Serling

  Funny, Dance, Humor

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• I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspirational, Music, Opportunity

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

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• One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

  Dylan Thomas

  Sleep, Night, Years

  A Child's Christmas in Wales (1954) p. 5

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• Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.

  P. D. James

  Morning, Years, Two

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.12, Vintage

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• I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

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• We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  Address on the 4th of July, delivered 4 July 1899, London, England

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• Twelve minutes. I can give you that.

  Rick Riordan

  Giving, Minutes, I Can

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• Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

  Julia Child

  Block, Food, Cooking

  Julia Child, E. S. Yntema (1979). “Julia Child & more company”, Knopf

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• If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.

  Margaret Mead

  Peace, Wall, Intelligent

  "Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views". Book edited by Rhoda Metraux, 1963.

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• But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

  Georg Brandes

  Strong, Years, Glimpse

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not changed much through twelve thousand years - and those are tree names: especially birch, willow, adler, elm, ash, apple and beech (bher, wyt, alysos, ulmo, os, abul, bhago). Seed syllables, bija, of the life of the west.

  Gary Snyder

  Book, Years, Names

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

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• The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient religions of the Eastern world. Every thing told of Christ has reference to the sun. His reported resurrection is at sunrise, and that on the first day of the week; that is, on the day anciently dedicated to the sun, and from thence called Sunday.

  Thomas Paine

  Sunday, Zodiac, Sunrise

  Thomas Paine (2016). “COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.599, e-artnow

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• Thirteen at a table is unlucky only,
  when the hostess has only twelve chops.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Tables, Unlucky

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• The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many waking hours in the home as in the school, and 126 times as many hours in the home as in the church. Each child is, to a great degree, what he is because of the ever-constant influence of home environment and the careful or neglectful training of parents. Home is the best place for the child to learn self-control, to learn that he must submerge himself for the good of another. It is the best place in which to develop obedience, which nature and society will later demand.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Teaching, Home

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• Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Today, Strive, Minutes

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.55, Rodale

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• No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Eight, Two, Six

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Everything and Nothing”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.

  George Perle

  Class, Tone, Tradition

  "The Listening Composer". Book by George Perle, p. 98, 1990.

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• Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few things I've discovered about writing is to form a habit that becomes an addiction so that if you don't put something down on paper every day, you get really mean and awful with withdrawal symptoms, and your wife and your dog and your kids are going to kick your ass until you get back to it because they can't bear you in that state of mind.

  Frank Pierson

  Dog, Morning, Mean

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• This is really hard to do but I'd like to change the tone now and briefly mention today's terrible tragedy in France. Twelve people were killed because a satirical newspaper made jokes that some group found offensive. All of us are accustomed to bad news from around the world. But this story hits home for anybody who mocks anyone.

  Conan O'Brien

  Home, People, Tragedy

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• Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run

  Alan Parry

  Football, Running, Unbeaten

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• How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

  John William Draper

  Years, Atheism, Church

  John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.307, New York, D. Appleton

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• I always drew. I don't remember a time when I didn't draw. And I actually drew comics from the age of maybe ten through twelve.

  Trina Robbins

  Age, Remember, Draws

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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