12 Quotes

“When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
And die as fast as they see others grow;
And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.”
― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“...It is only obvious that teaching is a very special art, sharing withonly two other arts-argriculture and medicin-an exceptionally important characteristic.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Only in the first hour of the night can I become human, while the male dove is busy with the twelve dead.'

--Black Book 2”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Colors blind the eye.
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart.

The Master observes the world
but trusts his inner vision.
He allows things to come and go.
His heart is open as the sky.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“We are happy to observe an increasing frequency of these pedestrian tours: to walk, is, beyond all comparison, the most independent and advantageous mode of travelling; Smelfungus and Mundungus may pursue their journey as they please; but it grieves one to see a man of taste at the mercy of a postilion.'

For the 'man of taste' to be actively recommended the pedestrian alternative indeed shows that a decisive reversal of educated attitudes has taken place, and within a relatively narrow span of years.”
― Robin Jarvis, Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel

“I hope that the examples I have given have gone some way towards demonstrating that pedestrian touring in the later 1780s and the 1790s was not a matter of a few 'isolated affairs', but was a practice of rapidly growing popularity among the professional, educated classes, with the texts it generated being consumed and reviewed in the same way as other travel literature: compared, criticised for inaccuracies, assessed for topographical or antiquarian interest, and so on.”
― Robin Jarvis, Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel

“Twelve mothers and twelve fathers were stacked into the long, thin house, each with four children, drawing the old cobalt-and-silver curtains down the center of rooms to make labyrinths of twelve dining rooms, twelve stting rooms, twelve bedrooms. It could be said, and was, that Marya Morevna had twelve mothers and twelve fathers, and so did all the children of that long, thin house.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)”
― Candida Martinelli, Violet's Problem

“She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)”
― Candida Martinelli, Violet's Problem

“what is said in the twelvie gang stays in the twelvie gang”
― twelvie gang

“Mutfaktan tabak çanak sesleri gelmeye başlamıştı. Adımlar odalardan odalara geçiyor; ışık, sıkı sıkı kapanmış perdelerin arasından yaramazca sızıp duvarlarda oyunlar oynuyordu. Satıcıların, ‘Çıt çıt! Simiiiiiiitçiiiieeeee...’ veya ‘Muslukçuuiiiieee, tesisatçiiiieee...’ gibi sonu sesli harflerle zenginleşen bağırışları sokaktan yükseliyor, ‘Karpuuuuz kan, karpuuuuuz kan’, ‘Overlok makinesi ayağınıza geldi. Halı, kilim, yolluk, pas pas kenarına...’ nidalarıyla sloganlar çeşitleniyordu.
Neyse ki hiçbiri gerçek değildi. Hilmi yatağında zorlanarak doğruldu. Birinin organları çürümeye başladığında hareket kabiliyeti de azalıyordu. Morarmış etleri nedeniyle odaya yayılan kokudan iğrendi; buradan hemen çıkmalıydı.

İki Arada Bir Derede, 12”
― Zeynep Paftalı, 12

“Kneriday'in bakışları zaman geçirmek için amaçsızca etrafta dolanırken birden ortalık aydınlandı. Herkes olduğu yerde dondu, arabalar durdu, nefesler tutuldu. İnsanlar kafalarını yukarı kaldırıp sokağın köşesindeki binaların tepesinde duran devasa ekrana odaklandılar. Oradaydı; herkesin ulaşmaya çalıştığı ve sahip olanların gözü gibi baktığı hazine, bembeyaz bir kurşun kalem şekline bürünmüş, reklamlarda boy gösteriyordu."

Zeynep Paftalı, 12”
― Zeynep Paftalı

“The 10/12 Theory: If you're just like 10 out of 12 people in a room, you add no value.”
― Richie Norton