Eleven Quotations

I'm a De Niro fan. I went eleven years without seeing a movie; the last one before that, February 1980, was De Niro and Scorsese in 'Raging Bull,' and when I went back, it was 'Cape Fear,' with De Niro and Scorsese. I picked up right where I left off at.

When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?

A quarter-century after the end of the Vietnam War, and eleven years after the collapse of the Berlin wall, it has become commonplace to say that we Americans have no consensus on foreign policy. Across the political spectrum, left or right, most Americans still cling to whatever assumptions they held during our long journey through the Cold War.

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

But I don't only get recognized for 'Friday the 13th.' I was on a TV show called' I've Got a Secret.' I was on that show for ten or eleven years. The older people always remember me from that.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.

Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.

All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.

Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew up, I wanted to be an artist.

Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.

There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

People kept asking, 'What's your market?' I've got no idea at all other than me, an eleven year old kid in a 56-year-old body. But there are a lot of us out there.

If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again.

I never wanted to be a puppeteer. I stopped puppeteering when I was about 18. I puppeteered when I was eleven years old to 18 to make extra money to go to Europe, which I made half of and my parents gave me half.

I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussion, and I knocked my teeth out. That was the first time that I got seriously injured, and I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, and my parents briefly doubted.

When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'

Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks.

When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.

When I was a kid growing up, there might be 10 shows on the air that had been on for ten seasons or eleven seasons. 'Gunsmoke' ran for over twenty years.

We brought in Donovan to catch for six innings, and he hasn't caught since he was eleven years old. But he did a great job out there.

We hope to involve all eleven schools from the Big Ten eventually.

eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.

When I was eleven, I just got good.

This program is where it is right now, as the greatest tradition in all of college basketball, the greatest history in all of college basketball. Eleven national championships. It all starts with Coach Wooden.

I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven.

My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon

None of the standard high school science courses made much of an impression on me, but I did enjoy the Advanced Placement Chemistry course I took in my senior year. This course had only eleven students and was taught by a rarity for our school, an exchange teacher from England, Mr. Leslie Sturges.

No other filmmaker has gotten a better shake than I have; I never had to direct a film I didn't choose and develop. Eleven years ago, I had a heart transplant. I got the heart of a young woman who is in her late 30s. So by that calculation, you may be giving me this award too early, because I think I've got 40 years left, and I intend to use them.

I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was thrown into the death prison at Ava, where we lay eleven months - nine months in three pairs and two months in five pairs of fetters.

I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.

I didn't get the ball down at all today. Eleven hits in six innings proves the point that I wasn't pitching down in the zone. ... When Furcal got the home run in the fifth, it shifted the momentum back to them.

I am alive today because I had advance warning about kidney disease. When I was eleven years old, I was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes.

Barry Ferguson and Ian Murray were then pushing on from midfield and we thought at 2-2 with eleven against eleven there was only going to be one winner. But sadly we will never know.

I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were starting a band and needed a guitarist. I told my folks, and by the next day I had a guitar lesson set up with a local teacher.

Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've also probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large part of another eleven records with other people.

Her freshman year, she made the All-Big Ten Freshman team and she only played in eight games. When she got hurt, we lost eleven in a row.

I think the most difficult task for Simpson is to come up with a clear, consistent, believable story for where he was between 9:45 and eleven on the night of the murders.

Larsson played because I have more than eleven players and all can take part,

Over 80 million records sold and I ain't got to do it with tens or eleven year olds.

Our work's cut out for us this series. We've got Fergie going tomorrow. They haven't seen him yet. Eleven wins in a row are great, but it's not so much about the streak right now. Every game is an important game. There's two left here. We've got to play the best we can.

I suppose they reckoned eleven from the same team would have been too much.

I write every day, on some days 10 or eleven hours, but sometimes only three hours, it depends if I got enough ideas.

What can you do, playing against eleven goalposts? (after 0-0 draw at Anfield)

I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.

That was the game. Seven or eight straight times the fouls were called on their end and one time on ours and we're going to the basket. It was very frustrating because I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision of who won the game. Eleven free throws; we predicate ourselves about getting to the line and we get to the line 11 times.

That's a tough one, I thought that we played well right on through. I thought that we played a good second half of the third period. We'll rebound and they should feel good about the way that they played, as it was our seventh game in eleven nights against a quality team and we just have to stay positive.

We had a lot of production at the top of the order. At the seventh inning we were looking and we had eleven hits at the top of our order. That's really good to see.

We wanted to make sure the best eleven would be selected for the match. Experience and knowledge of conditions here were also taken into account.

The rate of growth of new orders and production is strong while prices were up for a number of commodities, with eleven industries reporting that they are paying higher prices.

We want to avoid a mistrial, ... A juror said, 'We didn't discuss this' and that's a really good sign. Eleven jurors can deliberate.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?

When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington’s birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

With a hundred and eleven yards to the green I had a sand-wedge, which was the perfect club for me. It was a little bit down wind left to right. I just tried to hit it in the middle of the green and spin it to the hole.

We have seen some big really winners on huge down days. Today was no different. With one-day gains from eight to eleven percent, I am quite sure the users were happy.

The players think it was two lost and I think that it was one gained. I think it was one gained because eleven players didn't turn up - we had five. W e had five in the first half and we might have had five in the second half at times. However they're kids and because they're kids they probably aren't aware that things are not going particularly well but they still kept going forward.

When you do that, it makes it hard for your defense to play four quarters at the level that we expect them to play. We did not do a very good job on offense. I can not put my thumb on it, because there was some great effort, guys played hard, but you have to have eleven guys out there playing together. One guy here (and) one guy there just doesn't get it done.

With eleven pints of beer and seven small gins playing hide-and-seek inside his stomach, he fell from the top-most stair to the bottom.

We were fortunate enough get some stops and play some tough, hard-nosed defense. This is the fifth win on a five-game road trip. We have been on the road eleven or twelve days and we played some pretty good defense against a team scoring 150, 120 and 115 points, so I am awfully proud of our guys.

We were finding a lot of kids coming in like eight, nine, ten, and eleven years old. We were a baby sitter essentially for these kids,

Well, he hasn't been beat yet. He's good in that aspect. Ten for 10. Eleven for 11 would sound a lot better. ... I wouldn't trade our chances for anybody else's.

Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar.

We have a clock for each team, ... What we try to point out is you need to use every second to get ready for the opportunity to play a ball game because you only have, in this day and age, eleven opportunities, and next year begins twelve. You have to make sure you use your preparation time to get ready for that and most especially use your preparation time throughout the entire year so you're at your best in that last game. That's just something we believe in terms of preparation and something that we talk about and obviously have.

We have eleven seniors, so it was a nice day to celebrate, the last game at home that a lot of us will have. It's nice to celebrate the girls who make up a lot of the experience of our team, as well as the majority of our numbers.

We have eleven schools and we have eleven area restaurants who provide a fan base for each of the schools. That gives people an opportunity to gather, to party, to celebrate, to commiserate; whatever it is they do. That's been a very popular feature that we added a couple of years ago to the event and people really enjoy.

Between the Capital Circuit and (CAAC-3), we've won seven years in a row. We had seven champions and we had eleven in the finals.

Eleven years ago we never expected this would be the case. Many people now long for a divided government because that may be what it takes to get more responsibility,

Eleven states and the District of Columbia have a higher minimum wage than we have here in New York, ... caboose on the economic train.

Eleven of those affected were declared unfit to continue with the course while six voluntarily gave up training, saying it was too strenuous.

Eleven of 12 girls scored and our starters only played three minutes in the second half. I think accepting the trophy before the game really excited the girls. I was really pleased with their intensity as we head into the playoffs next week.

Eleven months of stats aren't enough to gauge anything.

Eleven girls scored, so it was pretty well-rounded on offense. We got a lot of girls involved and passed very well as a team.

Eleven foreign medical teams are on the ground and have set up six field hospitals in the worst-hit areas along with six camps manned by Pakistani civil and military doctors

Eleven films will be in the can, ... I don't think we'll have a blip on the radar screen.

Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run.

The roads that now make up the New York Central were built piecemeal from 1831 to 1853; and the organization of this company in the latter year, to consolidate eleven independent roads extending from Albany to Buffalo, finally put an end to the long debate between canals and railroads.

It was absolutely amazing to watch Jane's performance in game two. Eleven kills - that's just not done. She was in a total different zone. I don't know if we would have won that match if she had not had that performance.

Same thing with 'Long Long Way to Go' . We like to think we can tell a good song from a so-so song whether it be rock, pop, blues, rap, whatever... Again, for no reason other than curiosity, it was sent to us and we really dug it, so we recorded it. Apparently so did Lionel Ritchie ! Let's not forget here that we DID write the other eleven songs on 'X' !

Salt Lake City International Airport's outstanding on-time arrival record further enhances the fantastic accessibility of Utah's ski areas. Eleven of them are within a one hour drive of the airport, and a great on-time arrival record further enables many of our guests to hit the slopes they same day they arrive.

No woman answereth an important question in less than eleven score words

That (title) says it all right there, man. Eleven wins. From 5-11.

Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

Think of the metrics; eleven Fed actions in the last year, a stimulus package that will come from our leadership in Washington, ... The economy was sputtering prior to the 11th of September. We're now seeing clear leadership on both the fiscal and monetary standpoint. We're getting some good news from corporate earnings. There is a lot to be optimistic about.

Americans ignore the threat of these groups at their peril. Eleven years ago, a pair of extremists carried out a mass killing that included the murder of 19 children. If we're not careful, it could very well happen again.

There were two alleged smugglers, and apparently they were among 14 people who were able to cling to the hull of the boat after it capsized. Eleven of those people eventually floated away -- and they did not have life jackets.

At Catalina Productions we did about 25 television movies, a couple of features and 60 plays over an eleven or twelve year period.

For example, in all eleven states that had initiatives to ban same-sex marriage on the ballot, voters upheld the traditional family in every instance.

Danny is a professional journalist and has been for more than eleven years. He is well known internationally as a reporter. Currently, he is in Pakistan to provide objective coverage of ongoing events. He has never worked for the CIA or the U.S. Government in any capacity.

I've had my ups and downs, but I believe in my heart that I've had more ups than downs. I can't complain. Eleven years is a long time.

That means we need only a quarter of the Democratic members, ... Eleven states have changed their eminent domain laws since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled. Why not Connecticut? Why do we need more than three months to study this issue?

The issue of violence has not gone away for our children. Eleven years later, our schools are still not safe.