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Letter "E" » eleven
«No woman answereth an important question in less than eleven score words»
«One and one are sometimes eleven»
«On Leonardo DiCaprio: What is he - eleven? thirteen? I could play his nanny.»
«Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
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«Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.»
«The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.»
«The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.»
«She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.»
«My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness -- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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«Stop following me, are you following me? That'll get you twelve years at Leavenworth, or eleven years at twelveworth, or five and ten at Woolworth's.»
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