Eleven Quotes - Page 14

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Princess Diana

Inspirational, Family, Money

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Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

Paulo Coelho

Love, Passion, Sleep

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I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation.

Paul Auster

Character, Math, Intelligent

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During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on the same rug - while praying to the same God - with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the deeds of the white Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana.

Malcolm X

Eye, Past, White

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.391, Ballantine Books

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Playing with the Who is the biggest rush there is. At eleven years old I used to go to bed dreaming about what I'm doing now. I don't know how many people can say that.

Zak Starkey

Dream, Years, People

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When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.

Elana Dykewomon

Honesty, Lying, Hero

Elana Dykewomon (2013). “Beyond the Pale: A Novel”, p.42, Open Road Media

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I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny

Lita Ford

Play, Blood, Feelings

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Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.

Groucho Marx

Brother, Father, Years

"Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", 1933.

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I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.

Darryl Dawkins

Feet, My Birthday, Three

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How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.

Arnold Palmer

Golf, Simple, Feet

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My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

John Keats

Love, Pain, Passion

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Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Paulo Coelho

Moving, Heaven, Matter

"Miss Whiplash pulls it off" by John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2003.

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I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

Mia Couto

Years, Tears, Saws

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The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

Al Gore

Years, Energy, Records

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I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really depends on how fast the ideas are coming.

J. K. Rowling

Writing, Ideas, Three

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I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

Red Grange

Football, School, Men

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If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.

Andy Gray

Football, Team, Player

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Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.

Steven Chu

Light, Years, Car

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The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.

Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom, Country, Thinking

Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.277

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I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out... he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood "my name is Ice Cube."

Ice Cube

Girl, Brother, Men

"The Believer Interview: Ice Cube". Interview with Linda Saetre, blog.longreads.com. December 2003.

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I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.

Igor Stravinsky

Age, Abstract Painting, Negative

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Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.

Elaine Stritch

Wine, Glasses, Shopping

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A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but the whole airplane cracked and crinkled from the blast... We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud... mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall.

Paul Tibbets

War, Airplane, Cities

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Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.

Joan Didion

Reading, Simple, Twelve

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As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think 'actor' and see some easy money.

Matt Damon

Ocean, Thinking, Vegas

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