130 Dozen Quotes for You to Enjoy

First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports. Bud Grant

You Sports First Country Think Say Those Distinguish Exactly Purple Color Name Know First Of All Well Amateur Go Where Anything Anywhere Much Who Professional Teams Dozen Things Cardinals Two

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses. Christopher Columbus

I saw 'Get On Up' about a dozen times. I went every day. Every single day, I was standing outside when the movie theatre opened and bought my ticket. The theatre was usually empty. I live in a town that wasn't eager or very interested in a James Brown biopic, but I couldn't stop watching Boseman. Christopher Priest

Day Theatre Every Day Single Live Every Saw About Brown Outside Bought Opened Town Ticket Empty Single Day Up Very Times Get Stop James Movie James Brown Interested Standing Eager Dozen Watching Every Single Day

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then. Claire McCaskill

Politics You Walk Country Situation Our Negotiate Responsible More Know Most Terms Stimulus Than Trying Decided Republicans Room Them Then Should Meant Even Away Dozen Right Needed

I suppose I experienced the personal dilemma that baffles every working woman. What happens when you are expected to be Superwoman, to perform a dozen conflicting tasks at the same time? Coretta Scott King

Time You Woman Every Dilemma Perform Suppose Expected Personal Tasks Same Same Time Experienced Happens Conflicting Working Dozen

We've learned that musical ability is actually not one ability but a set of abilities, a dozen or more. Through brain damage, you can lose one component and not necessarily lose the others. You can lose rhythm and retain pitch, for example, that kind of thing. Daniel Levitin

You Example Lose Others Musical Kind Component Ability More Through Retain For Example Learned Brain Brain Damage Pitch Rhythm Actually Dozen Thing Necessarily Damage Set

For every Steven King, there are a dozen guys like me who make a good living. For every David Brin, there are a dozen authors who have managed to make it their day job. For each of them, there are a dozen more for whom writing is a terrific supplement. David Brin

Good Day Me Writing Job King Living Every Good Living Guys More David Supplement Day Job Like Steven Make Terrific Authors Them Who Each Whom Dozen

Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen. Douglas Leone

Me Side Dime Guys Investor Like Dozen

To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction. Drew Houston

Rain Space Kicked Easter About Crowd Tailored Casual Put Observer Nod Like Demo Looked Reaction Audience Demonstration Were References Normal Off Office Eggs Video Chocolate Product Chain Dozen Tongue-In-Cheek

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. E. T. Bell

Rare Half Meeting Indeed Papers Out About More Understands Mathematical Mathematician Than Really Fifty Who Brief Dozen Presented

I do splurge on diaper bags. I have a half dozen in different colors and styles. Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Half Colors Bags Styles Diaper Different Different Colors Dozen

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness. Elon Musk

For 'Thunderstruck', I discarded about a dozen ideas. And then one afternoon, I was thinking about wireless. I don't know why. I guess because it's become so ubiquitous. I was thinking that maybe there's something I could do about the origin of wireless, so I did what any self-respecting person does these days: I Googled 'wireless.' Erik Larson

I was once again looking for a book idea, and I remembered Holmes, but I specifically remembered that there was this World's Fair thing in the background. I thought, 'I'll read about the fair.' I had nothing better to do. I'd dismissed about a dozen ideas, and I was getting sort of antsy. I started reading, and that's where I got hooked. Erik Larson

Book World Better Thought Looking Reading Nothing Once Background Hooked About Had Remembered Idea Fair Ideas Read Sort Got Antsy Getting Where Again Holmes Dismissed Specifically Dozen Thing Started Started Reading

I love 'The Dirty Dozen.' Frank Grillo

Love Dirty Dozen

It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead. Gary Hamel

I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different. Gary Rossington

Three Entirely Could Write Songs Same Different Chords Dozen Four

People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets. George Harrison

Buy You Heart People Cancer Half Too Out Thousand Cost Costs Could Troubles Simply Feed Stuff Go Soup Up Screwing Which Them Fortune Dozen

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life. Giorgio Morandi

Life My Life Half Enough Would About Pictures Artist Just Dozen

World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name. Gore Vidal

Depression War People World Made Rich States Those Wink Had Name Prosperous Undergoing Govern Been Years Very Managers Which Republic Who Many United United States Dozen World War World War II

There's a difference between being politically incorrect and boorish. And we've seen that line crossed a dozen times by smart people who've mistaken politics for punditry. Greg Gutfeld

Politics People Smart Seen Crossed Smart People Between Mistaken Line Times Politically Politically Incorrect Difference Being Dozen Incorrect

Dozen Quotes

No more dozen quotes