Fifteen Quotes - Page 3

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.

Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?

I have an IQ of about 160, I taught science for about fifteen years.

I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.

Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy

I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.

I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed.

I remember seeing Richard Pryor's first movie; it was a midnight movie when I was in high school. I must have been about fifteen. It was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life. I'd never laughed that much.

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.

You never know how long your fifteen minutes of fame is going to last.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.

I'm off for a quiet pint - followed by fifteen noisy ones.

Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.

One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.