Eleven Quotes

• How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Use

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.83, Main Street Books

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• Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

  Leonard Cohen

  Time, Eye, Animal

  Leonard Cohen (2003). “The Favorite Game: A Novel”, Vintage Books

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• Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 18, 2016

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  The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Teamwork, Play

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• When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Who I Am

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• I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

  Dick Gregory

  Years, White, Restaurants

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• Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.

  Sara Gruen

  Dog, Horse, Elephants

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.296, Hachette UK

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• Bout time," she huffed, but her voice sounded thick and emotional too."I was at the hospital all day yesterday, but they wouldn't let me see you. I bolted past security but they called code ninetynine and chased me down, they escorted me out in handcuffs. The way I see it, the only criminal here is your mom. No visitors? I'm your best friend, or did she not get the memo every year for the past eleven? Next time I'm over, I'm going to lay into that woman." ~Vee

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mom, Past, Emotional

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• I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Boys, Thinking, Irritation

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.62, Scholastic UK

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• Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

  Stephen King

  Ridiculous, Amount

  Stephen King (1987). “It: 2”, Signet

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• Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals TWELVE PLUS ONE, And even a FUNERAL can be REAL FUN, You will find my DICTIONARY is quite INDICATORY. If you want to read my story, just look... THEN UNREAD.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Fun, Real, Two

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.54, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with a beguiling authenticity. The false beard tended to muffle his speech, but they could hear his chafing thighs all the way to the North Pole.

  David Sedaris

  Christmas, Years, Evening

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• It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

  Raymond Chandler

  Morning, Rain, Dark

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.8, Modern Library

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• I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Homeless

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• When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it...

  William Faulkner

  Children, Ignorance, Mean

  "The Reivers". Book by William Faulkner, 1962.

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• Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

  Paulo Coelho

  Profound, Desire, Eleven Minutes

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• All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Freedom, Lying

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• …and I’m thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that ain’t bad for eleven.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Dog, Eye, Simple

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Lois Lenski, Martin Luther King (Jr.), Ezra Bowen, Cynthia Rylant (2000). “Shiloh and related readings”

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• Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Couple, Believe, Boys

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1924). “Mother Mason”, p.34, U of Nebraska Press

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• Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.

  N.D. Wilson

  Mother, Numbers, Age

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.2, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The clock struck eleven and cat the vampire huntress was on the loose, except my battle armor was a push-up bra, curled hair, and a short dress. Yeah, it was a dirty job, but I was going to do it. Come one, come all, bloodsuckers! Bar’s open!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Jobs, Dirty, Cat

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• eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.

  Charles Bukowski

  Gone, Months

  Charles Bukowski, “The Retreat”

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• Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or - such is the pleasure they experience - they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Two

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

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• My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Mistake

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