#twelve

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. ↗

— Jimmy Chamberlin

#cash #get #go #home #home run

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product. ↗

— George Wald

#budget #cent #defense #gross #national

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#ago #airplane #am #amputated #anymore

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#college #first #go #i #professionally

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. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#day #deep #enjoy #fifteen #find

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. ↗

— Isoroku Yamamoto

#first #great #great britain #i #months

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#before #clock #going #scoundrel #thinks

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old. ↗

— Kesha

#i can #know #music #old #playing

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty. ↗

— Roy Bean

#been #good #good men #guilty #heaven

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. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#chances #conversations #habit #how #improvement