#twelve

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #twelve




'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work.


Jerry Leiber


#blues #city #complicated #difficult #dog

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

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.


Marv Levy


#call #creature #father #fun #happy

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.


Herman Cain


#bank #banks #been #board #chairman

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.


Eddie Campbell


#bad #because #bottom #down #end

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.


Joan Didion


#always #around #been #before #big

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.


Phyllis Diller


#children #down #first #lives #months

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.


Anthony Trollope


#equal #hours #human #only #six

I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort to build props and cosplay, when I was about twelve years-old.


Wil Wheaton


#build #done #effort #first #geeky

The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs.


Jennifer Granholm


#administration #been #before #brought #bush