#twelve

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #around #been #before #big

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#children #down #first #lives #months

I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort to build props and cosplay, when I was about twelve years-old. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#build #done #effort #first #geeky

You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out. ↗

— Ron White

#because #done #first #i #jokes

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds. ↗

— Orville Wright

#command #considered #could #estimate #first

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#constitute #eight #human #human life #life

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#directors #everybody #i #lot #rejected

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years. ↗

— Alison Lohman

#bakery #dad #french #mom #owned

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. ↗