Dozen Quotes

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. (John Steinbeck)
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. View quote
Larry Niven
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field that, of course, they are many in number or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. View quote
Edmund Burke
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. View quote
John le Carré
A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men. View quote
James A. Michener
One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say that they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politician stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. View quote
Fritz Kreisler
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. (Lope de Vega)
Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
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. View quote
Malcolm Forbes
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws. View quote
S. J. Perelman
Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships. View quote
Stanislaw Ulam
She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones. View quote
Octavia Butler
Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government. View quote
C. Wright Mills
Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen. View quote
Brad Pitt
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. View quote
John Edensor Littlewood
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives. View quote
John Muir
If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully”, or "yours truly”, or "your most truly”, &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately”), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm! View quote
Lewis Carroll