“The California I knew, old rancho California, is gone. It just doesn't exist, except maybe in little pockets. I lived on the edge of the Mojave Desert, an area that used to be farm country. There were all these fresh-produce stands with avocados and date palms. You could get a dozen artichokes for a buck or something. Totally wiped out now.” LittlesCountryUsedGoneProduceAreasEdgesUsed To BeDesertCaliforniaPocketsFarmsDozenPalmsBucksAvocadosArtichokesMojave Author:Sam Shepard
“In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.” WorldLongLightMightThreeLossWrittenFoodAreasEarsCookingGenerousIslandsPairsCulinaryAppetiteDozenDucksBowlsMasterpieceCornStimulusSteakOystersCrabsLobsterProustLong IslandClamsScallops Author:A. J. Liebling
“By the time Buffy finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love.” WellsTwoRunningThreeMonthsAreasTheaterDollarsIncludingFinishedDozenTheatricalTwo MonthsBay Area Author:Mira Grant
“I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and you visit the area and present the case to the local people, they threaten to hang you. You go back in five years and they think it's the greatest thing that ever happened.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsCasesFiveHappenedCreatingAreasPatternsLocalsParksFive YearsDozenLegislationProposeNational Parks Author:Mo Udall
“There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.” IfsWayDifferentWarLeftNationsParticularPlanetsAmountAreasDestructionPressureDown AndShipsNosesDifferent WaysCaptureDozenCatastropheMissilesDeliveringSelectiveWholesaleLeft Handed Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.” BrainCreatingAreasFunctionInstrumentsComplicatedScoreCrucialDozenIntegrationOrchestraAutonomousCreating SomethingAssemblage Author:Oliver Sacks