“ One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one. ”
- James Gunn- Copy
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“ Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure… ”
- James Gordon Gilkey- Copy
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“ It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
- 4K
“ During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. ”
- Florence King- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. ”
- Jean Anouilh- Copy
- 1.2K
“ You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. ”
- Marie Stopes- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. ”
- Emily Carr- Copy
- 1.2K
“ He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ”
- Mary Wilson Little- Copy
- 685
“ Competition between footmen gave way during the second half of the 18th century to men racing against time over long distances. 'Pedestrians' called Centurions. ”
- William Gordon Wallace- Copy
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“ I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither. ”
- William Trevor- Copy
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“ I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. ”
- J. B. Priestley- Copy
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“ Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
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“ The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill. ”
- Ted Morgan- Copy
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“ He has a terrific way with women. I don't think he has missed more than half a dozen. ”
- Fredric March- Copy
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“ While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty. ”
- Tran Duc Luong- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage. ”
- George Horace Lorimer- Copy
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“ There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating? ”
- Andy Rooney- Copy
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“ The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
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“ From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. ”
- Samuel Richardson- Copy
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“ Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. ”
- Kirk Hammett- Copy
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“ You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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