#twelve

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#another #any #art #boy #every

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way. ↗

— Fred Hoyle

#downhill #had #i #learnt #once

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. ↗

— James Thurber

#between #deserve #every #everything #example

It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#balance #did #squadron #tip #twelve

You can possess a book without really owning it, though. Beyond ownership in a commercial or legal sense, there’s ownership of an emotional or metaphysical kind - when a book speaks so powerfully to us that we feel it’s ours exclusively: that it exists just tor us. People we meet sometimes have this effect too; they look into our eyes, and speak in a hushed, intimate voice, and make us feel we’re uniquely important to them - before going on to do the same to someone else. In life, we call these people flirts. The best books are flirtatious, too, since they seem to be ours alone when in reality they’re anyone’s. ↗

— Blake Morrison

#twelve-thoughts-about-reading #life

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#found #got #i #know #limitations

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#age #around #bad #beat #five

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. ↗

— Norm Crosby

#duty #enough #fate #get #go

I have been extremely fortunate to have incredibly special fans support my work throughout my twelve year career. ↗

— Matt Czuchry

#career #extremely #fans #fortunate #i

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#consequently #descended #distance #ground #had