Best Dozen Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“From birth until I went to art college when I was 19, there are perhaps less than a dozen photographs of me.”

“I have had over a dozen trips to Lucknow - for work or personal visits.”

“Now, a lot of people didn't know him at all - it went through feeder funds, so they wouldn't even have known anything about Bernie Madoff. But everybody finds a justification for their behavior, and obviously, Bernie had a half dozen justifications in his own mind.”

“If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.”

“I'm not insecure. Give me a good role, and I'll perform even for a multi-starrer with half a dozen other heroines!”

“You banter, and you talk, and you get a sense of the speed of thinking and flexibility... It's not terribly scientific, but I interview a dozen or two dozen people a week, and I get a certain vibe reasonably fast.”

“I'm not exactly the type of actress who does half a dozen films a year.”

“You cannot choose beforehand what you want to use for a suit. You may want to change your mind a dozen times before you are through.”

“There must be a dozen films now based on Philip K. Dick novels or stories, far more than any other published science fiction writer. He's sort of become the go-to guy for weird science fiction notions.”

“For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.”

“I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.”

“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

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

“Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.”

“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 joined my father for recordings when I was 11 or so. By then, I could play a dozen instruments. My first professional recording was around that time. I played the vibraphone for Shankar-Ganesh in a Tamil film.”

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

“The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day.”

“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.”

“Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.”

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

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

“I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.”

“Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.”

“When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.”

“Over the years, my husband and I have sent two dozen or more girls to college and helped them with whatever else they needed.”

“You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.”

“I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.”

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

“I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.”

“In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.”

“What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?”

“When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be a career-defining, genre-defining book, the first of over a dozen in the series, the first of over 70 published books, the first on my road to the best-seller list, the first on my road to being published in 15 countries.”

“I worked from 8 A.M. to 12 A.M., and sometimes until 2 A.M. There were no shifts, just a few dozen people, and we all polished glass. I didn't enjoy it.”

“I was the sort of person who wouldn't just bring one friend home after school, I'd bring half a dozen.”

“I reread a lot. I must have read 'The Once and Future King,' 'Watership Down' and Mary Renault's 'Theseus' books at least a dozen times each.”

“I've been fortunate to have been in Paris a dozen times, where I've gone to the Louvre. I'm very big on Impressionistic paintings.”

“When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.”

“An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.”

“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 remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.”

“I've done a dozen or two dozen infomercials.”

“One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.”

“After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.”

“I was in TNA for over a dozen years. I had a great run there - I had a great career - but obviously, WWE has always been the be-all, end-all of sports entertainment. Until you get there and experience it on a personal level, you just don't know.”

“The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.”

“I can quote every single line in 'The Big Lebowski' from start to finish. That's what happens when you see a movie two dozen times.”

“One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.”

“I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.”

“I've been to Gettysburg probably more than half a dozen times.”

“With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?”

“In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'”

“One rose says more than the dozen.”