Top 100 Eleven Eleven Quotes
#1. Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review, cv2, Rhubarb and Centre A Gallery (Canada).
Erin Moure
#2. Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. We're all tormented by that same destructive feeling, the sense that no one else on the planet cared about us
Paul Coelho
#3. We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.
Gavin MacLeod
#4. I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since then, writing has felt like an attempt to get back there, to my bedroom, my maps, those races and languages and runes.
Ken Baumann
#5. I'm going to take you somewhere. It's time you began to see the world. You're eleven years old and it's time you saw something.
Louise Fitzhugh
#6. This sentence consists of eleven words, twenty-three syllables and seventy-four letters.
Charles Pearson
#7. I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really depends on how fast the ideas are coming.
J.K. Rowling
#8. I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.
Darryl Dawkins
#9. He had Oly letter a little card that he taped on his wall. The thing read, 'The only liars bigger than the quack are the quack's patients.' Arty used to just keep me in stitches. Eleven years old he was then.
Katherine Dunn
#10. My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.
Rob Zombie
#11. Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.
Colbie Caillat
#12. How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives?
Kyo Maclear
#13. And the winner of the drawing that night was an eleven-year-old black girl named Dorothy Daffodil-7 Garland.
Kurt Vonnegut
#14. Still, waking up this early was just wrong. "Why can't people be reasonable and only die after eleven A.M.?" I whined.
Diana Rowland
#15. When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.
Elana Dykewomon
#16. The holy scriptures contain no proclamation more relevant, no responsibility more binding, no instruction more direct than the injunction given by the resurrected Lord as He appeared in Galilee to the eleven disciples.
Thomas S. Monson
#17. When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together.
Isabel Gillies
#18. I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to L.A. when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video.
Jacob Latimore
#19. Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.
Daniel Levitin
#20. Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.
James Taylor
#21. For a freshman nobody, I look pretty good. At least that's what some girls hanging at the pool said. Sure, they were only eleven and twelve, but girls' opinions are always worth something to me.
Lurlene McDaniel
#22. So she spends until about eleven A.M. reading, re-reading, and understanding the new changes in the Project. There are many of these, because this is a Monday morning and Marietta and her higher-ups spent the whole weekend closeted on the top floor, having a
Neal Stephenson
#23. When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.
Kathryn Harrison
#24. There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.
Napoleon Hill
#25. It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.
Melina Marchetta
#26. I was eleven years old with menarche barreling down on me like a speeding bloodmobile.
Chuck Palahniuk
#27. Are you a house-wife, Mrs Silvers?' he asked. 'What would you recommend for getting burger relish out of a white shirt?'
The seething woman cranked the venom-level of her gaze up to eleven, and Raven smiled pleasantly back.
A. Ashley Straker
#28. Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.
John Piper
#29. Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.
N.D. Wilson
#30. I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
William Shakespeare
#31. ... because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.
Alan Bradley
#32. I hate to think how many minutes of my life I've spent on goddamn hold. I want those minutes back. When death comes for me, I want back every minute I was on hold in traffic jams, and behind people with eleven items in the ten items or less line.
Laura Lippman
#33. How tall are you, Constantine?" I asked, unable to hide my tears.
Constantine narrowed her eyes at me.
"How tall is you?"
"Five-eleven," I cried. "I'm already taller than the boys' basketball coach."
"Well, I'm five-thirteen, so quit feeling sorry for yourself.
Kathryn Stockett
#34. 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
#35. You're like seven feet tall, aren't you?"
"I am not seven feet tall," he snapped at her as if she'd really insulted him. "I'm six-eleven." When she smirked in disbelief, he added, "And three-quarters.
Shelly Laurenston
#36. You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.
Paulo Coelho
#37. I couldn't even begin to guess how old he was. Maybe thirty. Or three hundred. When you're eleven, anyone older is just old.
T.J. Klune
#38. Has he been with a woman yet?" he asked remembering the girl at the barn.
She shot him an angry glance."Is that all you think about? Of course he hasn't.He is only eleven."
"Nothing wrong with a boy starting early. I did."
"And look how well you've turned out.
Angelo Tsanatelis
#39. Give me a number between one and twenty."
Unable to see where this was going, she shrugged. "Eleven."
"You lose. Now strip off your clothes.
Suzanne Wright
#40. She's either the house mom or the drill sergeant that you eventually like and respect, even after he's removed his size eleven boot from your ass.
Ernie Lindsey
#41. I'm convinced that none of the important achievements in human history were accomplished before ten-thirty or eleven in the morning!"17
Bob Ward
#42. I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.
Franklin Knight Lane
#43. ... and I'm thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that ain't bad for eleven.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#44. They pray so much I can almost imagine Jesus himself sitting up there on a white puffy cloud saying, "Oh for the love of my dad, shut the fuck up already. I heard you the first eleven times.
Tara Sivec
#45. The clock struck eleven and cat the vampire huntress was on the loose, except my battle armor was a push-up bra, curled hair, and a short dress. Yeah, it was a dirty job, but I was going to do it. Come one, come all, bloodsuckers! Bar's open!
Jeaniene Frost
#47. What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher ... Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.
Louise J. Kaplan
#48. They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.
Lemony Snicket
#49. Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. You look at the prison system and who that's chewing up.
Randall Robinson
#50. Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.
Steve Kluger
#51. There is one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, 'How do we arm the other eleven?'
Yuri Orlov
#52. The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die.
Anne Sexton
#53. I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.
Julie Newmar
#54. If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.
Paulo Coelho
#55. Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of second. -Eleven Minutes
Paulo Coelho
#56. Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've also probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large part of another eleven records with other people.
Jesse Harris
#57. I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.
Erik Satie
#58. When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
Lorraine Hansberry
#59. We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light.
Frederick Lenz
#60. She asks him to touch her, to feel her with his hands, because bodies always understand each other, even when souls do not.
Paulo Coelho
#61. But in a pinch, he was a capable coder too. He just wasn't especially fast. So when he was finally done coding and debugging his program and ran a successful test, it was past eleven on Tuesday night. He hadn't slept but for a few hours on Sunday night, and the lack of sleep had cooked him.
Matthew FitzSimmons
#62. Swan dive down eleven stories high
Hold your breath until you see the light
You can sink to the bottom of the sea
Just don't go without me
The Civil Wars
#63. I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.
Dick Gregory
#64. Miss Huntingforest beamed at them. 'If you can eat cakes at eleven o'clock in the morning you're all right,' she said. 'It's an acid test, in my opinion. If a man can eat two cookies before noon and enjoy them there's not much wrong with him.
Margery Allingham
#65. Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.
Daniil Kharms
#66. My day does not truly begin until I've acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It's the Big Gulp that's important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable.
Cate Marvin
#68. One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven.
Bear Bryant
#69. How old are you?" the woman asked. "You look about eleven." "Twenty-four," Mae said. "My god. You don't have a mark on you. Were we ever twenty-four, my love?" She turned to the man, who was using a ballpoint pen to scratch the arch of his foot. He shrugged, and the woman let the matter drop.
Dave Eggers
#70. I'll send you a friend request."
"You do that, sonny. I'm on the Internet every last Friday in the month, from eleven to three.
Nina George
#71. You realize something once, when you are nine, and then you realize it again when you are ten, and you realize when you are eleven, twelve, but every year you see that what you thought you understood a year ago, no, wait it is ten times worse. And your heart fills up with lead.
Rebecca Makkai
#72. The brain works best between half past six and eleven. After that it's mush,
Jo Nesbo
#74. All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.
Michael Specter
#75. Dad's final will was written and signed eleven days before he died. The original will it replaced disappeared and has never been found....I can't imagine him wanting to make such radical changes a few days before he died. I don't believe for one minute that he truly understood what was going on.
Deana Martin
#76. Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.
Amy Sedaris
#77. In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.
Paulo Coelho
#78. I lived in New York for eleven and a half years and I don't think anybody ever asked me about my religion. I never even thought about it. Now, all of a sudden, it was the big thing in my life.
Judy Blume
#79. Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
Vance Havner
#80. For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
#81. It's not such a huge deal when this happens at a 7-Eleven. It's pretty huge, though, when you spend the entire job interview trying not to come across like a box of hair and you come across like a box of hair.
Augusten Burroughs
#82. When we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poems at all ... But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#84. The word 'friend' has become so utterly void of meaning in a world governed by social media. How can anyone truly claim to have eleven hundred friends ? In my book that would involve making time to meet at least three of them every day of the year.
Alex Morritt
#85. No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.
Paulo Coelho
#86. We went through a period of time when if you were of Asian descent, you would play a terrorist or you would play, you know, like, the 7-Eleven guy or you would play that. And then really watch television now.
Reshma Shetty
#87. In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.
Ann Coulter
#89. Every morning, and every night, I resolved to start a new life, but I always procrastinated, acquiescing to my ailing willpower. And Saturday at eleven o'clock at night was not the right moment to make important decisions.
Cesar Aira
#90. There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.
Reginald Rose
#91. The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
Knute Rockne
#92. In great thick dusty books he read
And hardly ever went to bed
Before it was eleven.
- One Day When They Had Settled Down
Mervyn Peake
#93. I remembered back to leo's burial and holding your hand. I was eleven and you were six, your hand soft and small in mine. As the vicar said 'in sure and certain hope of the resurrection of eternal life' you turned to me, 'I don't want sure and certain hope I want sure and certain Bee.
Rosamund Lupton
#95. If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#96. In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.
Paulo Coelho
#97. That "relationship" was a perfect example of Callie convincing herself of something that didn't really exist. She'd believed in unicorns until she was eleven, despite all evidence to the contrary, simply because she'd wanted to.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#98. Baz arched an elegant brow. Are you going to snog the Humdrum-is that your plan? Because he's eleven. And he looks just like you. That's both vain and deviant, Snow, even for you.
Rainbow Rowell
#99. That is a strong possibility Fisher, thank you for that resounding moment of entertainment," replied Gordon sarcastically.
Kevin Eleven
#100. I'm a De Niro fan. I went eleven years without seeing a movie; the last one before that, February 1980, was De Niro and Scorsese in 'Raging Bull,' and when I went back, it was 'Cape Fear,' with De Niro and Scorsese. I picked up right where I left off at.
August Wilson
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