“ Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
- 1.9K
“ To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell. ”
- Will Carleton- Copy
- 514
“ To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. ”
- George Burns- Copy
- 719
“ Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders in a space of fifteen minutes. ”
- Jane Elliot- Copy
- 3.9K
“ We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 937
“ A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. ”
- Lenny Bruce- Copy
- 1.7K
“ You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. ”
- Patrick Leahy- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball. ”
- Pete Rose- Copy
- 1.4K
“ If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now. ”
- Woodrow Wilson- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Fifteen men on the dead man's chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
- 3.1K
“ It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. ”
- Robert Benchley- Copy
- 369
“ I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. ”
- Joe Orton- Copy
- 54
“ 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. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 898
“ It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous. ”
- Peter Benchley- Copy
- 315
“ Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject… The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. ”
- Luther Burbank- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Hell, by the time a man scratches his ass, clear his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
- 346
“ A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die! ”
- Philip Roth- Copy
- 1.1K
“ A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
- 575
“ At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. ”
- Howard Chandler Christy- Copy
- 790
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