Fifteen Quotes

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

  Andy Warhol

  Future, World, Minutes

  Quoted in AndyWarhol (exhibition catalogue, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden) (1968). Usually quoted simply with "famous" rather than "world famous."

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• Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

  Sam Ewing

  Funny, Birthday, Hilarious

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• 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

  Musical, Talent, Praise

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

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• It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

  Robert Benchley

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1949. According to Nigel Rees, Cassell's Humorous Quotations, the following appeared in Punch in 1924: " 'It took me nearly ten years to learn that I couldn't write.' 'I suppose you gave it up then?' 'Oh, no! By that time I had a reputation established.' " The issue referred to by Rees is 6 Feb., and the cartoonist is R. Curry.

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• 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

  Life, Choices, Caged Birds

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.31.

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• Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Devil, Bottles

  Treasure Island ch. 1 (1883). Stevenson took the phrase dead man's chest from a pirate name for an isle in Charles Kingsley, At Last, ch. 1 (1870).

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• As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

  Charles de Lint

  Differences, People, Fiction

  "Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection". Book by Charles de Lint, 2003.

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• I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

  Karen Gillan

  Hair

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• I was a stuntman for over fifteen years.

  Chuck Zito

  Years, Stuntman, Fifteen Years

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• At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

  Robert Benchley

  Hands, Joy, Firsts

  Robert Benchley (1985). “Benchley at the Theatre: Dramatic Criticism, 1920-1940”

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• 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

  Life, Girl, Years

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.603, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Friends, Years, Ten

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

  Willa Cather

  Writing, Age, Famous Writers

  Quoted in Rene¤ Rapin Willa Cather (1930).

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• At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beauty, Promise, Literature

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

  James Madison

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

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• Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Wall, Drinking

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• Old is always fifteen years from now.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Birthday, Humor

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Years, Done

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 04, 2012

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• The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I knew the principal industries of the Ruhr Valley, the underlying causes of World War One and what Peig Sayers had for her dinner every day...What I wanted to know when I was fifteen was the best way to chat up girls. That is what I still want to know.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Girl, War, School

  Joseph O'Connor (1994). “The secret world of the Irish male”

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• They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Struggle, Eye

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• Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Sixteen

  Jacqueline Woodson (2006). “If You Come Softly”, p.29, Penguin

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• Josh turns to me. “I can’t believe she’s writing these things.” “Not she,” I say. “Me.” “Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It’s crazy!” “Exactly,” I say. “I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me.

  Jay Asher

  Husband, Crazy, Believe

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• You were a soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle." "My father was a career army man, sir. I was there at the first engagement with Analousia, and took up my father's rifle when I was barely fifteen." "Saints preserve us," Dr. Kelling said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. "What have we done to our youth?

  Jessica Day George

  Father, Army, Men

  Jessica Day George (2011). “Princess of the Midnight Ball”, p.102, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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