Top 1200 Fifteen Years Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet search engine Google can scan a billion Web pages and find the one page that has the exact piece of information you were looking for. It's the reason it's so hard to make money betting on NFL games, and it helps explain why, for the past fifteen years, a few hundred amateur traders in the middle of Iowa have done a better job of predicting election results than Gallup polls have.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

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

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.

Nobody at fifteen wants anybody to see how goofy their parents are.

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

It's hard to evolve when you only have fifteen days or three weeks to practice and correct and change tactics.

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

When I was fifteen, I spent three weeks driving all over Brooklyn with a guy who was following his girlfriend.

In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits.

Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish such a book had been available fifteen years ago when I was in the early stages of researching my series of novels. Popkin has been deft and tactful in stitching together these excerpts, and as a result, he manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it-this book engaged me deeply.

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.

Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of "Ozzie and Harriet," "Father Knows Best," and "The Brady Bunch." In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on "Father Knows Best" grew up to become major druggies, and Mom on "The Brady Bunch" dated her fifteen-year-old fictional son.

shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

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

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

Prepare yourselves mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions, memorize scriptures, and oftentimes learn a new language. The discipline to do this is learned in your early years. Establish now the daily practice of reading the scriptures ten to fifteen minutes each day. If you do so, by the time you reach the mission field, you will have read all four of the standard works. I urge you to read particularly the Book of Mormon so that you can testify of its truthfulness as the Lord has directed.

I was walking down the street. something caught my eye, and dragged it fifteen feet.

I'd always had an interest in guitar from about seven years old. But I first actually had lessons when I was about fifteen in Scotland, in Edinburgh. There was a folk club there and a girl called Jill Doyle taught me the guitar, who happened to be Davey Graham's sister. Davey Graham is one of my heroes and always has been. Fantastic guitar player. And he's had a strong influence on me all the way through.

You can put a person in jail for 5 years, for 10 years, or 20 years, for the same crime. We're deciding on 10 years to 20 years, when 5 years would be enough. Okay. The deterrent value, the additional amount of leverage that you get over a criminal to keep them from breaking the law in the first place, associated with making the sentences longer, is de minimous; it's essentially nothing.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

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

I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.

At least no one's trying to kill anyone. Give them about fifteen minutes

There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to twenty years, perhaps even further back than that, there's also been an explosion of a very wealthy black class in the United States, but those people are often treated as special cases: they're athletes, entertainers. Jay-Z. Basketball players. The country metabolizes the fact these rich black people exist, but it seems only to reinforce the idea that every other black person is limping along in poverty.

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

It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.

Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.

Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.

Fifteen is around the time when my parents broke up, and all I was listening to was 2Pac.

Y.A. wasn't really a specific genre when I was fifteen, but if it was, I would probably have shunned it; I was a huge snob.

Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy

I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.

When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.

It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

Fifteen years ago I knew I had to settle into being a mom and give them a normal life, which I never had. I was always traveling. I had tours. I wanted my kids to settle down, and we kind of did it together.... It was a bumpy transition. There was no director telling me what to do. No script, but I really enjoyed it. I even became president of the PTA. Doing the laundry was a meditative experience. Now, when I start to get nervous and stressed, I go in and start to fold towels.

If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career

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

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.

If you have a happy friend, your happiness goes up fifteen times.

Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way.

It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

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

When I was fifteen, I got a Tiffany's necklace from the producers of 'Game of Thrones' with my character's name Sansa engraved on it.