Being Eleven Quotes

#1. It was a fine thing indeed, Luna thought, being eleven. She loved the symmetry of it, and the lack of symmetry. Eleven was a number that was visually even, but functionally not - it looked one way and behaved in quite another. Just like most eleven-year-olds, or so she assumed.

Kelly Barnhill

#2. It's so simple, it really couldn't get any more simple, but that's the point.

Hayley Williams

#3. It's going to be a long, lonesome eleven months in Iraq, long and lonesome being the best-case scenario

Ben Fountain

#4. I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

Whitney Houston

#5. The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.

Paulo Coelho

#6. Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

#7. Mr. Beaconsfield is the Year Eleven drama teacher. He's one of those teachers who likes being "down with the kids" - all gelled hair and "call me Jeff."He's also the reason our version of Romeo and Juliet is set in a Brooklyn ghetto and Juliet is leaning out of a trailer rather than a balcony.

Zoe Sugg

#8. I'm Jarra, I'm an Earth girl, and I'm proud of it. You can laugh at me for being an ape if youwant, but there are only eleven living people entitled to wear the Artemis, and I'm one of them. I'm proud of that too.

Janet Edwards

#9. Maybe we could get Aiden some pants because I'm tired of looking at his junk," Jayce muttered.

Katie Reus

#10. Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

Eric Metaxas

#11. I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.

Gayle Forman

#12. We don't need accountability groups; we need fellow warriors, someone to fight alongside, someone to watch our back.

John Eldredge

#13. I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.

Brendan Dooling

#14. People have to stop saying that just because someone is an anti-gay activist they might be gay. They're DEFINITELY GAY!!

Bill Maher

#15. People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Billy Corgan

#16. Be ready to face the worst. This will leave you with stability in your mind.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#17. The love of anything is the offspring of knowledge, love being more fervent in proportion as knowledge is more certain. And this certainty springs from a complete knowledge of all parts which united compose the whole of the thing which out to be loved.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#18. The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#19. War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be changed; war is not in our genes.

Gwynne Dyer

#20. Medium clever," Simon acknowledged. "Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking."
"I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chattering about," said Jace. "It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

Cassandra Clare

#21. However, he brought to mind instances of cultured fellows that promised so brilliantly nipped in the bud of premature decay and nobody to blame but themselves.

James Joyce

#22. I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.

Shakira

#23. Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally ...

Marie Bashkirtseff

#24. Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with GOD, that is the state of meditation.

Sathya Sai Baba

#25. She didn't seem to mind being the girl you called every couple of months at eleven at night, just to see what she was "up to." As much relationship as she could handle.

Junot Diaz

#26. It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy.

Walter Isaacson