Best Twelve Quotes

If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I’d have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve… If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I’d be taking out ads.

At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.

I seriously started drinking probably when I was about twelve. Kids are doing a lot of stuff very early.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn’t all that important to me.

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.

The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.

It’s unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

The novel’s not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you’d have a twelve-hour movie.

Everybody’s twelve years old in an apple orchard.

Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

What twelve year old wouldn’t want to play an evil wizard?

You know, my first album, some of those jokes I’d done for twelve years because I couldn’t throw ’em out.

The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.

I’m not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It’s not going to happen.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.

I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that’s not what I’m interested in doing now. Even though I love it.

I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there’s no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E.
van Vogt.

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That’s one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

Peter, you’re twelve years old. I’m ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers–the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to play one of them in public. Before I did, no violinist or cellist had ever played a Suite in its entirety.

I never stopped writing. I started writing when I was twelve years of age. And I was writing all the time. But nothing was translated until thirty years after I started writing, when The Hidden Face of Eve was translated in 1980.

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.