Fifteen Quotes

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it'll take all day. Act like you've got all day and it'll take fifteen minutes.

I was a stuntman for over fifteen years.

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.

The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.

Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up.

If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.

I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?

Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.

I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop.

Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.

I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius.

I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.

When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.

I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent

Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a few thousand copies over a period of fifteen years, while the same title by Seymour Lipschutz in the The Schaum's Outlines will be considered a failure unless it brings in a steady annual income from the sale of a few hundred thousand copies in twenty-six languages?

Fifteen years ago, I really give up American market.

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth

My kids were completely out of control, while I was working fifteen hours a day plus weekends. I screamed a lot, something I'm not particularly proud of, but it was that or firearms.

I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

Every time we open the Bible, let's stop and pray, whether for fifteen seconds or fifteen minutes, asking the Spirit to teach us. When I read the Bible, I want God to talk to my soul.

Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.

Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.

The Irish question is this: Do the Irish know the answer to everything? ... And the answer to that is that we know fifteen different answers to every question. All of them right.

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.

Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana beforehand, it came very quickly.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!