Dozen Quotes

• The Coast Guard only has about a couple dozen helicopters and they have rescued about 700 people already. Hopefully these boats can be put into place quickly. There's not much time to do these kinds of things if you want to save lives.

  

  John Metcalf
  • Couple
  • Hopefully
  • Guard

• We have a key list of two dozen tenants we want to get this in front of and get their feedback, because they are integral to how the project may take shape.

  

  John Bacon
  • Project
  • Key
  • Front

• We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Faces
  • Lifetime
  • Dozen

• In each case it was just a few dozen, but it's enough that we do want to take a closer look at it.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Case
  • Closer
  • Dozen

• Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.

  

  T. H. White
  • War
  • Reason
  • Dozen

• I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and you visit the area and present the case to the local people, they threaten to hang you. You go back in five years and they think it's the greatest thing that ever happened.

  

  Mo Udall
  • People
  • Firsts
  • Creating

• One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Habit

• Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Minorities

• I don't race a lot, half a dozen (races) a year maybe.

  

  Dick Trickle
  • Race
  • Dozen

• Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Book
  • Week
  • Verses

• An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Mother
  • Interesting
  • Kind

• The NYPD was ubiquitous. They were always around Malcolm X. Whenever Malcolm spoke, there would be one or two dozen cops all over the place.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Two
  • Cop
  • Spokes

• Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other.Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin

  

  B. H. Roberts
  • Book
  • Serious
  • Facts

• When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

  

  Will McDonough
  • Television
  • Newspapers
  • Globes

• Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Trying
  • Battle
  • Meditation

• When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Boy
  • Boys

• There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

  

  William Nicholson
  • American
  • Writer
  • Dozen

• A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

  

  Caroline Gordon
  • Book
  • Enough
  • Firsts

• I like my men like I like my roses . . . by the dozen.

  

  Barbara La Marr
  • Roses
  • Dozen

• A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

  

  Cecil B. DeMille
  • Spirit
  • Humans
  • Terrible

• I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

  

  Judy Holliday
  • Trying
  • Actors
  • Instant

• Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.

  

  Harvey V. Fineberg
  • World
  • Mind
  • Natural

• I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.

  

  Woody Guthrie
  • World
  • Song
  • Pride

• I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.

  

  Morton Feldman
  • Said
  • Involved
  • Painter

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