#dozen

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America. ↗

— Lee Child

#clashes #diversity #dozens #fascination #freak

So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#audience #best-seller #books #brazil #british

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#dated #dozens #fun #had #i

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#according #business #dozen #extensive #gardens

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. ↗

— William Trevor

#enormously #every #fiction #find #i

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. ↗

— Len Wein

#beginning #different #dozen #end #makes

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

— Elizabeth I

#head #his #man #shoulders #without

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. ↗

— Peter Straub

#been #clumsy #copy #could #dozens

But actors with political views are a dime a dozen. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#dozen #political #political views #views

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bloggers #briefings #correspondents #day #days