Dozen Quotes

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

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

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions.

One rose says more than the dozen.

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.

I've done a dozen or two dozen infomercials.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

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.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

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

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

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

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

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.

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.

Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.