130 Dozen Quotes for You to Enjoy

Whenever I dream of playing a perfect round of golf, which I rarely do more than a dozen times a day, I picture myself on one of my favorite British Open-style links, and in particular the great courses of the west of Ireland, whose holes flow through naturally bunkered dunesland never far from the sight or sound of surf. Henry Beard

Myself Day Great Picture Sight Favorite Dream Rarely More Perfect Through Never Particular Courses Surf Sound West Ireland Links Times Than Whenever Golf Which Holes Far Naturally Round Whose Dozen Flow Playing British

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it. Howard Jacobson

Learning Will Fall Out Shake Higher Institution Any Dozen

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. J. B. Priestley

The thing I have in common with Donald Trump is, about a dozen years ago, we got a 'Man of the Year' award in New York City, the Hotel Plaza, from the USO. Jack Keane

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor. Jack Prelutsky

Me Animals Down Every Birds Months Drawings See About Invented Poems Had No-One Wrote Editor Accompany Friend Six Just After Sent Them Working Fun Sat Dozen Two

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures. Jack Prelutsky

Me Took Pen Drawings No Idea About Poems Idea Hours Still Came Accompany Verses Where After Decided Them Produce Produced Notion Evening Creatures Ink Dozen Two Needed

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men. James A. Michener

Men Group Nurses Were Surrounded American American Men Dozen Two

Bobby and I went through some old questionnaires about customer requirements for languages, then we compiled a new one and sent it out to a few dozen people we knew. James Frank

People Old Few Out Some About Through Knew New New One Customer Sent Then Bobby Requirements Languages Dozen

Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-on-demand print run of a dozen or so copies, shows publishers and editors a completed piece of work and that you can follow through on a project. Jeff Lemire

Work Me You Project Completed Run Follow Able Follow Through Through Put Piece Print Editors Tiny Being In Print Worked Your Even Shows Publishers Dozen Copies

Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house. Jill Lepore

Life is much more available in New York - there are a dozen movie theaters within walking distance. Living in California is easier, but you get sedentary. John Gregory Dunne

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. John Jay Hooker

There must be a dozen films now based on Philip K. Dick novels or stories, far more than any other published science fiction writer. He's sort of become the go-to guy for weird science fiction notions. John Kessel

Science Become Films Other Philip Must Guy More Writer He Weird Sort Science Fiction Than Any Fiction Fiction Writer Stories Far Notions Novels Now Based Published Dozen

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. John le Carre

Politics Truth Good Nothing Always Doing Eternal Reasons Dozen

Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way. Jonathan Ames

Struggle People World Better Poverty Few Own Living Books Way My Own Poverty Line Still Line Survive Than Articles Trying Did Human Little To Survive Realm Human Population Even Novelist Population Dozen Amuse Below Soft

Every year, I travel extensively in the autumn and the spring. I set most of the winter and summer aside for my family and my own tribal relatives. But during that traveling time, I often find myself visiting other native communities around the continent - perhaps a dozen or more each year. Joseph Bruchac

Time Myself Family Travel Winter Relatives Tribal Year Spring Own Autumn Every Other Summer Visiting Find My Own More Perhaps Most Around Continent Often Native Aside Communities Each Traveling Each Year Dozen Set

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about. Joshua Foer

Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats and still keep a modest carbon footprint? I don't think so. Julie Burchill

Drop Half Think Tribe More Footprint She Still Than Any Modest Bogus Who Keep Believes Carbon Mummy Dozen

When it comes to romance, I believe in keeping it simple. With my last girlfriend, we were on our way to our favorite restaurant when I pretended that the car was crappin' out. I asked her to get out and check if smoke was coming from the exhaust. When she did, I popped the trunk and inside were six dozen roses and a stuffed bear. Justin Chon

Simple Car Believe Our Way Favorite Out Pretended Restaurant Inside Girlfriend Bear Check Stuffed She Smoke Exhaust Coming Were Trunk Get Did Six Romance Asked Roses Keeping Her Dozen Last

No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste. Katherine Dunn

Good Writing Old Beginning Too Enough About Gym Never Like Know Sport Boxers Felt Boxing However Been Years Train Get Did Taste Wanted Endured Then Coach Dozen Compete Started

The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average has closed higher in 17 of the 21 sessions since Donald Trump was elected president, with about a dozen record closes so far as it continues marching higher. Kelly Evans

Closed President Record About Higher Since Industrial Trump Donald Donald Trump Closes Far Average Elected Marching Dozen

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times. Kevin Crossley-Holland

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