Eleven Quotes - Page 11

• Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

  Bjork

  Football, Sorry, Eggs

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• One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

  Christian Bale

  Growing Up, Woods, Midnight

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• It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning philosophical - that maybe they HAD gotten in that car. All three of them. And what they now thought of as their life was just a dream state. That all three of them were, in reality, still eleven-year-old boys trapped in some cellar, imagining what they'd become if they ever escaped and grew up.

  Dennis Lehane

  Dream, Philosophical, Boys

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• There were eleven of us. Each more different than the next. All with the same mindset. Things weren't the way they were meant to be. It was our job to make things right. We were the soldiers of Halla. It was time for us to take it back.

  D. J. MacHale

  Jobs, Soldier, Different

  D.J. MacHale (2012). “Pendragon Books 6-10: The Rivers of Zadaa; The Quillan Games; The Pilgrims of Rayne; Raven Rise; The Soldiers of Halla”, p.1911, Simon and Schuster

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• Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

  Paulo Coelho

  Happiness, Happy, Miracle

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• Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs...I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Song, Clever, Expression

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• If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.

  Dave Barry

  Home, Boys, Leader

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• There was a DJ who stayed up for eleven days straight, the longest-recorded period of time anyone has ever gone without sleep, and he started playing nothing but Crosby, Stills and Nash, and that's how they knew it was time to call the ambulance.

  Meg Cabot

  Sleep, Gone, Periods

  "The Princess Diaries: Mia Goes Fourth". Book by Meg Cabot, November, 2002.

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• I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

  Paulo Coelho

  Women, Passion, Adventure

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 21, 2016

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• Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Order, Feelings

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• The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

  Paulo Coelho

  Feelings, Share, Make Sense

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 14, 2014

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• Come home with me, Acheron. I’ll make it well worth your while. (Artemis) I have a headache. (Acheron) You’ve had a headache for two hundred years! (Artemis) And you’ve had PMS for eleven thousand. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Home, Years, Pms

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• Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.

  Steve Kluger

  Ice, Needs, Greenland

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.83, Penguin

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• I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says, "Who? What? You're hiding out?" And then I hum a few bars of one of their songs and Mom says, "Oh, I know that song. It's on the mix you made me," and I say, "Right," and she says, "Well you have to be back by eleven," and I say, "Mom this is a historical event. History doesn't have a curfew," and she says, "Back by eleven," and I say, "Fine. Jesus," and then she has to go cut cancer out of someone.

  John Green

  Mom, Song, Jesus

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.8, Penguin

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• He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. “Eleven out of twelve work fine. I’d say that’s better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Trying, Twelve

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.80, Penguin

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• What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

  Stephen King

  Done

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

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• What are you doing here? (Artemis) I wanted to thank you for what you did tonight, but as I considered that, it dawned on me that you have never once in eleven thousand years done anything for me for free. The sheer fear factor of that realization alone has made me come seeking you. So what gives? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Years, Giving, Tonight

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Seize The Night”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• You know, I've walked this earth for over eleven thousand years, my lady. I have seen things in my life that are unimaginable to you, and you ask me if I doubt you? Lady, I doubt the very air you breathe. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Air, Years, Doubt

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• Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Night, Years, Seven Months

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• She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she was not there. There was no pleasing her, in fact. She had the grace, even at eleven, to know there was no pleasing her. She thought a lot, analytically, about other people's feelings, and had only just begun to realize that this was not usual, and not reciprocated.

  A. S. Byatt

  People, Grace, Feelings

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• Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Running, Book

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• I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.

  David Attenborough

  Travel, Mean, Past

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• Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

  G. H. Hardy

  Games, Sides, Cricket

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Two, Giving, Mind Blowing

  Twitter post from Dec 7, 2011

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• I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government an official note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock, that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and consequently this country is at war with Germany.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Country, Morning, War

  "Neville Chamberlain's declaration of war". www.theguardian.com. September 03, 1939.

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