I’m not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It’s not going to happen.
I won’t eat offal. Once, I was in London at the Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, which is this really fancy eating establishment and hotel, and I almost got conned into eating testicles. It was one of the most delicious meals I’ve ever eaten, about twelve courses. That was one of the courses.
People ask me how far I’ve come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
I think that there’s something really powerful about the sun and its effect on the human psyche. I lived in a place with no windows for twelve years.
I don’t have a creepy uncle, but I certainly have many, many uncles. My mom has twelve brothers and sisters, and my dad has two sisters and three brothers. Their maturity level is still hovering around fifteen when they all get together, but they’re not necessarily creepy.
I was what? – twelve years old – and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.
Our nation’s immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.
Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.
My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a – it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.
Our ancestors didn’t need any genetic enhancements to be able to sit for twelve hours a day and eat fatty, sugary foods, but we need enhancements that handle that altered environment.
Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I’d be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew up, I wanted to be an artist.
I have been extremely fortunate to have incredibly special fans support my work throughout my twelve year career.
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I’ve been doing this for twelve years.
My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.
I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann’s doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
We’ve rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It’s not fun.
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.
For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote ‘The Beforelife’ within a year.
I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
It’s unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.
Me and Mariah are both Aries and we’re both eternally twelve, so we hit it off from the get go.
If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That’s a home run for me.
‘Lucky Man’ I wrote when I was twelve years old. I wrote it when I first was given a guitar by my mother. I only knew four chords, but I used them all to write that song. And it just stayed with me, stayed in my head. I didn’t even write it on a piece of paper. I remembered it.
Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
If a woman tells you she’s twenty and looks sixteen, she’s twelve. If she tells you she’s twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she’s damn near fourty.
Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.
With social media now, everybody’s faceless, but I assume these kids sending me pictures of myself of Instagram are twelve, thirteen years old.
Twelve years on sets watching directors, I’ve taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.
When I was twelve, I heard about the National Theater School, and I told my parents, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ And that was it.
Nickelodeon came to us at the end of 2009 with a twelve episode ‘mini-season’ already green-lit for a new series. They let us do pretty much whatever we wanted with it, as long as it was in the ‘Avatar’ universe and featured bending.
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
I wanted to look like Mike Tyson. But then I started to realize, in a twelve round fight, you must be patient.
Babies born to women who are infected with hep B – and mothers can carry the virus without their knowledge – will almost certainly be infected if they are not vaccinated within twelve hours of birth.
What does happen in ‘Gourmet,’ we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were, like, ten or twelve test cooks. And whenever anybody finished something, they would yell, ‘Taste!’ and everyone would go running towards it, and then taste, and then brutally deconstruct the dish.
Rock ‘n’ roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters – twelve children.
If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card’s ‘Ender’s Game’. You’ll be hooked. I think he’s written like twelve or thirteen.
I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected to the Fed Chairmanship for the Federal Reserve Kansas City Bank back in the mid-’90s. It might have been 1995-’96.
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.
I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep muddy water and started screaming and sinking. My mom ran up, and I was just standing there a foot away and wouldn’t stick out my hand to pull him up. So I’m probably not the best person to take on a camping trip.
After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.
Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn’t have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.
There was a moment when we were casting ‘Groundhog Day’ when Bill Murray was not at the top of my list. He’d been getting crankier and crankier. By the end of ‘Ghostbusters II’, he was pretty cranky. I thought, ‘Do I want to put up with this for twelve weeks?’
In 1984, when ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ came out, not only was I twelve and couldn’t get into an R movie, but I lived twenty miles from a theater. So my first experience of it was on VHS.
I once went with my grandson to a county fair where you shoot a water pistol at the clown’s mouth. We came home with twelve stuffed animals and a goldfish.
My mind is constantly creating and searching, but I can’t make myself put the right words on paper until I’m ready. Once I’m ready, I’m a focused, disciplined writer who will put in twelve hours a day at the computer, but I also spend a lot of time away from the computer getting to that point.
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
I’ve been playing the bass guitar for almost twelve years and fretless for about nine, so I’ve got quite a bit of mileage in my hands already.
Film has far more color shades. It’s called ‘bit depth’ in digital terms. And most bit depth in digital is about twelve, but film bit depth can be twenty to thirty. And so you just have more shades of yellow and red and oranges and everything.
It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it’s ten.
