Twelve Quotes - Page 19

• Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hands, Arms, Snitch

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• If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Gun, Purses, Minutes

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.60, Penguin

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• Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. Can they possibly think that is beautiful? It is a passing fancy, but its effects can be permanent. Some have gone to such extremes that the ring had to be removed by surgery. The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve have declared that we discourage tattoos and also “the piercing of the body for other than medical purposes.” We do not, however, take any position “on the minimal piercing of the ears by women for one pair of earrings”-one pair only.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Thinking

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• We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.

  Neil Strauss

  Mean, Years, May

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.166, Canongate Books

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

  Tom Felton

  Years, Play, Evil

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• The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

  Smedley Butler

  War, Eight, Sky

  Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.20, The Forlorn Press

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• I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected to the Fed Chairmanship for the Federal Reserve Kansas City Bank back in the mid-'90s. It might have been 1995-'96.

  Herman Cain

  Cities, Kansas City, Boards

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• I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.

  Dane Cook

  Book, Years, Comedy

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• As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

  Ann Coulter

  Jesus, Usa, Leader

  Ann Coulter (2011). “Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America”, p.19, Crown Forum

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• I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Night, Years

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• More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once.

  Garth Nix

  Past, Advice, Wish

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #1: Mister Monday”, p.211, Scholastic Inc.

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• Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Long, Long Time

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.271, Macmillan

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• When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on.

  James Howe

  Thinking, Stories, Pieces

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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, Eleven

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• Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

  Joan Didion

  Talking, People, Different

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• Nothing ever got my pulse racing (in a good way) like hockey. Well, nothing except Beyonce, but that wasn't until I was twelve or so. Then, all of a sudden, it was like I opened my eyes one day and noticed that the world is full of beautiful girls, and I've had a hard time thinking about anything else ever since.

  Justin Bieber

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

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• To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

  Umberto Eco

  Player, Men, Skills

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• I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

  Judy Garland

  Memorable, Age, Garlands

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• 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.

  Leo Kottke

  Sibling, Noses, My Sister

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• I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.

  Leo Kottke

  Fun, Thinking, Trying

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• Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Spring, Moon, Years

  Kobayashi Issa, “Face Of The Spring Moon”

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• They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

  Black Elk

  Uncles, Lying, Men

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• 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.

  Lisa Alther

  Writing, Years, Rejection

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• In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality and utter disbelief in cause and effect

  Heather O'Neill

  Years, Choices, Causes

  Heather O'Neill (2014). “Lullabies for Little Criminals”, p.243, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Adolf Hitler

  Goes On, Vipers, Scream

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.250, eKitap Projesi

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