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Fifteen Quotes

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

"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."

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

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

Song: Haikus Sonnet Shakespeare, Album: Words Words Words

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

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1916). “Self-reliance: A Practical and Informal Discussion of Methods of Teaching Self-reliance, Initiative and Responsibility to Modern Children”

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

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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 (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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.

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