Fifteen Quotes
"Greatest Living Mathematician Failed in Mathematics" in "Ripley's Believe It or Not!", 1935.
In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
Quoted in AndyWarhol (exhibition catalogue, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden) (1968). Usually quoted simply with "famous" rather than "world famous."
Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Quoted in Rene¤ Rapin Willa Cather (1930).
I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.
Adrian Rogers (2008). “What Every Christian Ought to Know Day by Day: Essential Truths for Growing Your Faith”, p.78, B&H Publishing Group
Entertaining Mr. Sloane act 1 (1964)
For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
Song: Haikus Sonnet Shakespeare, Album: Words Words Words
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1916). “Self-reliance: A Practical and Informal Discussion of Methods of Teaching Self-reliance, Initiative and Responsibility to Modern Children”
Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.251, Univ of California Press
I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent
Song: Keep Ya Head Up
Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.77, Small Beer Press