Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur C. Clarke

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

Joe Garagiola

Six of one, half dozen of another. Oh, well, half of one, six dozen of the other.

We are talking dozens and dozens of sex offenders - mainly from just four states that report the employers names.

The people in the street -- a few dozen on Thursday night -- are a reminder of the fact that Milosevic still enjoys substantial support,

Bonnie Tyler

I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.

Rick Perlstein

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

Gore Vidal

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.

Nicola Griffith

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

The proposal has been panned by everyone I've heard comment. There have been maybe a dozen people in all.

Amanda Palmer

I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.

We predict at least a dozen copycats within the next 24 hours.

Stewart Butterfield

A company like Adobe, there are dozens of different teams that are using Slack. Each of those elected to use Slack independently.

There are more than two dozen states where we would look to site a second repository.

There are dozens of ways one can go about managing his or her career,

Ehud Barak

maybe there will be a need for a few dozens of foreign observers.

John Montgomery

Numerous people were interviewed and dozens of leads were investigated,

Jami Attenberg

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

Freddy Ferrer is proud to have the support of literally dozens of Latino leaders.

I did tell him I was going to issue this appeal. I have talked with no fewer than several dozen American Indians on this, him included.

Henry David Thoreau

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

George R. R. Martin

I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.

Ornella Muti

I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.

I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.

Half a dozen will jump in fairly quickly.

Jim Thorpe

Have not taken it out (of his bag). Last year I think I hit it a half a dozen times and never missed it. It just fits me.

I think with Huston, you could pick a dozen films.

We must have missed at least a dozen three- or four-foot shots. We were in a position to win, and if we made half of those shots we probably would've been all right.

He worked our tails off. There were a hundred vocals I thought were perfect that he made me sing a dozen more times before he was happy. I got to the point that I just laughed and said, 'OK, Brian, you're the boss.' Now that I've heard the record, I'm glad he worked my rear to death. I really don't hear anything that I'd want to change.

He fired dozens of rounds. It's a miracle no one was shot.

I get in at least two dozen samples each week.

Gary Hamel

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.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

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