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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. -- Ansel Adams
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. -- Robert Frost
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. -- Erma Bombeck
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. -- Norm Crosby
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. -- Phyllis Diller
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about. -- Earl Nightingale
You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -- Johnny Cash
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! -- Ansel Adams
People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage. -- David Lee Roth
If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold. -- Mariska Hargitay
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
Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags. -- Robert Bly
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
Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom. -- Quinn Cummings
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. -- Marv Levy
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. -- Christopher Morley
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. -- Hamilton Wright Mabie
Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of what really makes us happy, cuts to the core of things. It takes him only twelve words to get to the heart of the matter: Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely. -- Russ Roberts
We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else. -- Maya Angelou
Katniss, there is no District Twelve... -- Suzanne Collins
Twelve minutes. I can give you that. -- Rick Riordan
Twelve people die every day because there aren't enough kidneys. -- Sally Satel
Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot. -- Carl Jung
Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent. -- Dick Vitale
Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird. -- Joe Pantoliano
Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death -- Cressida Cowell
Twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and three cents in coins, from six centuries. -- Kami Garcia
I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God. -- Keith Miller
Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot. -- Christopher Eccleston
Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them. -- Linda Perlstein
Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation. -- Michael Pare
Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals. -- Andrew Tobias
You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub. -- Suzanne Collins
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She'd met Colin on a Monday. She'd kissed him on a Friday. Twelve years later. She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic. -- Julia Quinn
If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six. -- Christopher Moore
Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people. -- Francis Bacon
The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac represents the twelve lessons of human existence, the 12 qualities to be developed in the formation of the perfect man (and woman). -- Vera Stanley Alder
Twelve million students take the PARCC or Smarter Balanced. Now, if 5 percent opt out, that creates - that triggers some restrictions, and 5 percent of 12 million is only 600,000. -- John Merrow
The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?' -- Cliff Robertson
I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us that we need to manage every day. -- John C. Maxwell
Would the Lord send one of the Twelve Apostles halfway around the world to help just one person? The answer is YES. He does it all the time. -- David A. Bednar
The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing. -- Gustav Holst
I didn't see much besides Melbourne and a quick trip down to the Twelve Apostles, but all the Aussies I encountered were good-spirited and had a fine sense of humor. -- Jim Goad
The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs. -- Jennifer Granholm
Raise your hand if you had no idea you'd see so much nudity in one week of jury duty." Twelve hands flew straight into the air. And unbelievably, Payton laughed. -- Julie James
W.S Merwin says "after three days of rain" and I write "After Twelve Days of Rain." I like his quietude. I admire his ability to be simple without being simplistic. -- Dorianne Laux
Twelve Dancings are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd; And soon as a dance has come to a close, Another begins, and each merrily goes. -- Heinrich Heine
Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan. -- Gary Ross
Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage. -- Ed Koch
God hath not revealed anything to Joseph, but what he will make known unto the Twelve, and even the least Saint may know all things as fast as he is able to bear them... -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world, -- Fred Thompson
Twelve million children in the United States face hunger every day. Bringing an end to this terrible situation is a passion I share with my friends in the entertainment industry. Together we can end hunger. -- Kathy Ireland
Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God. -- Melody Beattie
Since we parted yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer,- One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,-thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
My name is Katniss Everdeen. My home is District Twelve. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely is dead. It would probably be best if he were dead... - Katniss EverdeenS -- Suzanne Collins
I'm underrealized," Lula said. "I gotta lot of untapped potential. Yesterday my horoscope said I gotta expand my horizons." "You expand any more in that dress, and you'll get yourself arrested," Connie said. -- Twelve Sharp -- Janet Evanovich
My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening. -- Kate Christensen
Jesus didn't live alone. He had Peter, John, and James around him. There were the Twelve and the other disciples. They formed circles of intimacy around Jesus. We too need these circles of intimacy, but it's a discipline. -- Henri Nouwen
Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession. -- John Fusco
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I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. His journey has been complicated by infantile seizures, sleep apnea, dietary challenges and now, puberty! -- John C. McGinley
Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life. -- Colleen McCullough
Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'! Twelve was a real turning point for me as I moved to a mixed school, and then I became cool and discovered hair gel. -- Robert Pattinson
There is one thing which we should have exceedingly clear in our minds. Neither the President of the Church, nor the First Presidency, nor the united voice of the First Presidency and the Twelve will ever condone the use of ReddiWhip on pie. -- Joseph Fielding Smith
Twelve Angry Men' was done with an intermission, and I took that out. I really wanted an audience to feel like they had no break, just like those jurors, and you're not going to get out of that room until you come to a decision. -- Scott Ellis
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. -- Herbert Spencer
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. -- Vance Havner
If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty. -- Chris Rock
When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner. -- Frances Mayes
In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind. -- Sandra Cisneros
You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty. -- Roy Bean
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town. -- Patrick MacGill
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. -- Jefferson Davis
Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age. -- Joe Frazier
I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay. -- Andy Garcia
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
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I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip. -- Sue Grafton
I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel. -- Jimmy Cliff
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds. -- Orville Wright
Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. -- Jerry Leiber
I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important. -- Idina Menzel
I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream. -- Dick Dale
To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was. -- Umberto Eco
An only child is never twelve. -- Enid Bagnold
The first twelve years are the hardest. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
When I was born I owed twelve dollars. -- George S. Kaufman
One does silly things when one is twelve. -- Cassandra Clare
Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard. -- Rachael Ray
Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve. -- Murray Walker
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve. -- Elbert Hubbard
God is a twelve year old boy with Asperger's. -- Eugene Mirman
Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run -- Alan Parry
Why only twelve disciples? Go out and get thousands. -- Samuel Goldwyn
I started taking acting classes when I was twelve. -- Lindsay Wagner
Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I just got pinned by a freakin' twelve year old. -- Kurt Angle
A committee is twelve men doing the work of one. -- John F. Kennedy
I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine -- Philip K. Dick
I have a twelve year old sex doll. Brand new. -- Anthony Jeselnik
I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars. -- George Carlin
After age twelve, birthdays should be as private as hernia surgery. -- Erma Bombeck
I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve. -- W. C. Fields
The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....] -- J. D. Salinger
After twelve years of trying, I just decided to stop missing. -- Aspen Matis
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime. -- Haruki Murakami
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. -- Jules Renard
What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard? -- Tom Felton
Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say. -- Kobayashi Issa
It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up. -- Michael Jordan
I wrote my first song when I was twelve on the piano. -- Rachael Yamagata
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot. -- Judy Garland
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit. -- Honore de Balzac
What's twelve inches long and hangs in front on ass, Mankind's tie. -- Jerry Lawler
It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world. -- W. C. Fields
There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully. -- Paul Hindemith

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