Twelve Word Quotes

#1. I learned never to take him into a baby store. Ever. He snickered every time he heard the word 'nipple.'" "Well, that's what you get for dating a giant twelve-year-old," I told her, sitting on Jolene's left.

Molly Harper

#2. Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.

Louise Talma

#3. When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.

Theodor Haecker

#4. Later, when I walked Littleberry out to his Vespa, he asked if he could kiss me.
'Well, yeah,' I said, my heart thumping. Finally.
'I'm a really good kisser,' he added, as if I still needed him to talk me into it.

Steve Watkins

#5. My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.

Claire Danes

#6. As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities are great for both Canada and Washington state.

Rick Larsen

#7. She loved horses and Hank Williams and had a best friend named Babs.

Cheryl Strayed

#8. A Short Southern Screw? So I was right. You're craving something south ot the Mason-Dixon Line."
He moved closer, crowding her even though there was still a good twelve inches between them.
"I can assure you, though, I'm a man who isn't short in any sense of the word.

Katee Robert

#9. Femi Fani Kayode is my boy. Provide him food, he will eat and then sing for you. He's a smart boy

Olusegun Obasanjo

#10. Ah". Tzimisces smiled. "Let me guess. Flowery periphrases, back-to-back literary allusions and quotations from thousand-year-old authors. A marked reluctance to use one word when twelve can be jammed in if you sit on the lid.

K.J. Parker

#11. All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.

Anne Lamott

#12. The respectable, like the despised, are always at the mercy of circumstances; the influences of environment and the weight of tradition are vastly important to them, for these hide their inward poverty. The

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#13. Seldom was blue for blue's sake present till Pollock hurled pigment at his canvas like pies.

William H Gass

#14. Own who you are and celebrate it.

RuPaul

#15. The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.

Natalie Babbitt

#16. Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Orson Scott Card