Twelve Quotes

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. (Robert Frost)
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. View quote
James Thurber
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. View quote
Isoroku Yamamoto
A committee is twelve men doing the work of one. View quote
John F. Kennedy
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. View quote
Phyllis Diller
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy. View quote
Sigourney Weaver
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. View quote
Judy Garland
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. View quote
Robert Frost
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun The Japanese dont care to, the Chinese wouldnt dare to Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta. View quote
Noël Coward
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. (Rod Serling)
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. View quote
Erma Bombeck
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. View quote
Smedley Butler
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. View quote
Mark Twain
Lord when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. View quote
Christopher Morley
What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard? View quote
Tom Felton
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. View quote
Norm Crosby
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. View quote
Leo Kottke
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. View quote
Leo Kottke
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. View quote
Marv Levy
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. (Vance Havner)
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person. View quote
John Lennon
Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep. View quote
Haruki Murakami
A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance. View quote
Herbert Spencer
A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game. View quote
Tina Fey