Kurt Busiek

I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

American Writer

Srikumar Rao

Observe yourself as you go through a typical day. Stuff happens to you. As it does, you immediately judge it and label it. Dozens of times. Hundreds of times. So often that you no longer recognize that you're doing it. It is a deep-seated habit.

Indian Educator

J. B. Priestley

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

British Writer

Soledad O'Brien

Over the years, my husband and I have sent two dozen or more girls to college and helped them with whatever else they needed.

American Journalist

John le Carre

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

English Writer

Fritz Kreisler

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

Austrian Composer

Kevin De Bruyne

Belgium have a very good team. There are dozens of teams that say we want to become the world champions.

Belgian Athlete

Anthony Doerr

The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day.

Rufus Wainwright

I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.

Canadian Musician

Giorgio Morandi

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

Italian Artist

Used when you need to specify exactly twelve items, not more, not less.

Precise Quantity

Commonly paired with certain items like 'eggs' or 'roses' to indicate a standard pack or bundle.

Fixed Expressions

Use 'dozen' to make counting larger quantities simpler by grouping them into twelves.

Grouping

Indicates a vague, large quantity, implying there are many options or instances.

Large Number

Used to suggest a sizeable number without being specific; shows abundance.

Indefinite Amount

Sometimes used to exaggerate the actual number of items or occurrences for effect.

Hyperbolic

 it's fabulous in fact once you get your eye in there's dozens of them there are yeah you can see how actual waves almost crashing below them clear water yeah and have monkeys i know it's such a bizarre sight you know i've filmed primates all over the world but there's nowhere that it's like this

A Collection Of Wild...

 And, take a moment to think, how many times have you listened to it? Chances are you've heard that chorus repeated dozens, if not hundreds, of times, and it's not just popular songs in the West that repeat a lot. Repetition is a feature that music from cultures around the world tends to share.

Why we love repetition...

 close flyby because if we hadn't seen anything, no one would ever have believed anything I said again. So, but what we found was spectacular. This image made me nearly fall off my chair, because here we see dozens of jets, big and small, coming off the south polar region.

Water Discovered In...

 there are two or three acres where two dozen chimpanzees live on each of them. And these chimpanzees would then live the life of a chimpanzee, with other chimpanzees in an environment that was as close to Africa as possible. Now, all these cases are still going on.

Chimps have feelings and...

 dozens of experiments have tested the EPR prediction, and all have found the same quantum mechanics is correct. The correlations between the indeterminate states of entangled particles are real and cannot be explained by any deeper variable.

Einstein's brilliant...

 but after overcoming my own assumptions about them I've learned these issues are not as insurmountable as most people think plus dozens of promising new advanced atomic designs are currently under development that cannot meltdown can

An eco-modernist...

 There had to be like thirty dolphins and it was mesmerizing. I must have yelped a dozen times, cause every time they came up it was like a squeal of delight. I’ve never been that close with wildlife.

New Zealand's Stunning...

 I saw that dozens of children were arriving; they were being trafficked by someone. I stopped them, those people. I complained to the police. So the policemen, instead of helping me,

Kailash Satyarthi: How...

 When we talk about English, we often think of it as a single language but what do the dialects spoken in dozens of countries around the world have in common with each other,

Where did English come...

 Aztecas ants they protect the tree almost like tiny security guards the sloths presence has not gone unnoticed and dozens of ants have climbed aboard