Top 100 Quotes About Fifteen
#1. Lot of people are idiots at the age of fifteen. He grew out of it.
J.K. Rowling
#2. I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.
Katy Perry
#3. Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.
David Livingstone
#4. Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.
Ernest Hemingway,
#5. Likely I'll end up bored after fifteen minutes of dancing and sit in the bathroom reading an e-book on my phone.
Brenna Aubrey
#6. I raised you for fifteen years. I fed you and clothed you. I loved you and still do. I love you because you have been with me for fifteen years. I am your mother because we have been together your whole childhood. I have earned you as my son.
Joseph Fink
#7. In your country club, your church, and business, about fifteen percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights, and boobs, and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress.
Alan K. Simpson
#8. I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
Edward Albee
#9. Fifteen years old is the middle of my life, regardless of when I die.
Edouard Leve
#10. You had an elaborate system that you thought would keep us out of bed: you sat on the other side of the room, you didn't let me crack your knuckles, you never stayed more than fifteen minutes. It never really worked, did it?
Junot Diaz
#11. If anyone had bothered to notice me, they would only see a scared fifteen-year-old girl with eyes of sable ringed by kohl liner and black hair that fell to her waist. They wouldn't see someone struggling to remain sane. Only an empty space where a real girl used to live.
Sherry Soule
#12. I'm forty-nine, not fifteen, and I've made my peace with myself. Had I been handsome and stupid when I was fifteen, or twenty-one, as, at that time in life, I wished I had been, I would undoubtedly now no longer be handsome--but I'd still be stupid. So, in the long run, I've won out.
Isaac Asimov
#13. I was about to try Skill Fifteen, which involved both breaking his nose and potentially ending his chances of ever having kids, when my captor bent down and whispered in my ear, Don't even think about it, Mercer.
Rachel Hawkins
#14. I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so.
Neil Gaiman
#15. My reputation precedes me. It shows up about fifteen minutes before I do, eats, and then leaves without paying or tipping.
Jarod Kintz
#16. Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.
Jimi Hendrix
#17. 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.
Marc Maron
#18. Hey, I'm Maddie. I have been dreaming about you for fifteen years. I was wondering if you were dreaming about me too or if I need to be locked up in a mental institution?
Elena Kincaid
#19. If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.
Rob Payne
#20. I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about somewhere. I'm not sure what it was about to be honest, I think it was probably just something along the lines of teen angst.
Lauren Mayberry
#21. Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.
Ben Kingsley
#22. A decapitated head will live, on average, fifteen minutes, and I've always been above average.
Michael LaRocca
#23. To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.
Mark Twain
#24. Ben told me that Tom had just spoken on the mobile to Alice and according to Tom she didn't say anything about falling over at the gym and she sounded "Just like Mum except maybe ten to fifteen percent grumpier than usual." I think he's learning percentages at school right now.
Liane Moriarty
#25. Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God.
Martin Luther
#26. A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall, and landed on his feet.
Rudyard Kipling
#27. By the time she was fifteen, the age she was the day of the shipwreck, opinions by the dozen landed in each hollow track left by her feet.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#28. The girl freeze-out - today it was negative fifteen.
Kami Garcia
#29. Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy
Ernie J Zelinski
#30. I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.
Douglas Wilson
#31. I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.
Rebecca Solnit
#32. The northeast trade winds that blow at a steady fifteen knots onto the cliffs and reefs of the islands' lee shores produce endless trains of eminently glidable waves.
Simon Winchester
#33. It is an aching thing to know that we are all so tiny, stumbling in a universe that is wider and darker than any Earth-bound sea. Two-fifteen
Scott Thomas
#34. This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling ... I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere Have fun, honey.
Deb Caletti
#35. Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.
Pete Rose
#36. ...if you can achieve total intimacy with a piece of cable that costs fifty-nine kopeks, what good is it? How can you say you have something special with a person, when you can get the same thing with anyone in Russia in fifteen minutes?
Raphael Carter
#37. When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.
H.G.Wells
#38. She was only fifteen. At that age embarassment is something you can actually die of.
Helen Oyeyemi
#39. To make a forty-inch fur coat it takes between thirty and two hundred chinchilla, or sixty mink, fifty sables, fifty muskrats, forty-five opossums, forty raccoons, thirty-five rabbits, twenty foxes, twenty otters, eighteen lynx, sixteen coyotes, fifteen beavers, or eight seals.
Karen Dawn
#40. I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.
Jonny Greenwood
#41. Fifteen seconds. That's all it takes to completely change everything about a person. Fifteen
Colleen Hoover
#42. I had a guy come up to me once in the gym when I'm training arms and tell me that I should do curls this way. I looked at his arms and they were about fifteen inches. That would be like me walking up to Tom Platz and telling him how to squat!
Lee Priest
#43. If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we'd have a pretty average record. It wasn't hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor.
Charlie Munger
#44. It was fifteen thousand for a first-class ticket, but I'm sufficiently capitalized to indulge such whims. And the drinks are free on the flight. If you're ambitious, you can almost break even.
John Green
#45. The landscape here was strange. It was some type of forest, with giant vines that grew into spirals, round and round, growing up fifty metres toward the sky. They were massive. Some were fifteen metres across, narrowing as they rose.
Stephan Von Clinkerhoffen
#46. I'm off for a quiet pint - followed by fifteen noisy ones.
Gareth Chilcott
#47. But you can certainly take fifteen years off everything these days." She paused. "But you can't take height off a mountain.
Alexander McCall Smith
#48. I have only ever liked one boy in my life. I have only wanted one man to have as my own. I have only ever had one dream since I was eight. Styx, the dream is you. You stole my heart fifteen yes ago and you still haven't given it back.
Tillie Cole
#49. I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.
R.A. Torrey
#50. A fifteen-year-old dropped her cone, bent to retrieve it, then hesitated, abandoned the melting delicacy to the pavement and the soles of future passers-by; soon she would be one of the grown-ups and no longer lick ice cream in the street.
Gunter Grass
#51. He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.
David Peace
#52. She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that, she thought- and never worried about it again.
Ayn Rand
#53. The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#54. Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.
James T. Farrell
#55. It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
Jules Renard
#56. I've had this reoccurring dream for the last ten to fifteen years.
Tommy Tune
#57. Some fifteen percent of the 6,500 staff members working at Auschwitz would eventually be convicted of war crimes, with the government of Poland being among the most active in investigating and prosecuting war criminals.
Larry Berg
#58. Movie theaters barely make any money. A movie can make a couple of thousand dollars, or could get lucky and make ten or fifteen thousand dollars, but theatrical releases don't really sustain the work. For me, it's the best sort of advertisement for anything else you'd want to do.
Robert Greene
#59. Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.
Lefty Gomez
#60. I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#61. I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months later, I was one of the fifteen finalists in an international contest.
Sigrid Agren
#62. It's easier to be a saint for fifteen minutes than an hour
Karen Salmansohn
#63. I know it sounds corny, but I'd love to improve people's lives, especially socially ... Making the world more open is not an overnight thing. It's a ten-to-fifteen-year thing.
Mark Zuckerberg
#64. He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?
Erica Sehyun Song
#65. Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.
Wilferd Peterson
#66. The boy sat in my room for fifteen minutes last night working up the nerve to go downstairs and talk to you. Then he cam back and said 'We ate cookies. See you in the morning,' and went to his room. Give me something, Chloe.
Nikki Godwin
#67. If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
Alfred Bester
#68. How, I wondered, could a fifteen-year-old boy act like this without getting his ass kicked every time he opened his mouth?
Roland Merullo
#69. I always try to practice what I preach. I meditate for fifteen minutes every day and do yoga several times a week.
Arianna Huffington
#70. You groped my bum!"
"It was an accident."
"It was not. You haven't done anything accidental with that hand since you were twelve."
"Fifteen, Mabes. You make me sound like some kind of infant sex prodigy.
Lily Morton
#71. He worked on it for over fifteen years before he died in his fifties of complications caused by pneumonia.
Liane Moriarty
#72. To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.
Felice Picano
#73. Youth is feeling seventy years old, misanthropic, and ready to die at fifteen
Nikolai Grozni
#74. I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.
Umberto Eco
#75. It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it.
Mary Hesse
#76. It cost me my identity. Being molested created such sexual and emotional confusion that I was an old man before I was fifteen and still a boy at thirty. I felt numb and removed, like I was not there, just a piece of property for others to use and discard.
Gregory R. Reid
#77. 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
#78. Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.
Eugene McCarthy
#79. History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.
Terence McKenna
#81. We really are All One ... this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.
Bill Hicks
#82. Fifteen minutes later, a six foot seven inch, broad, bulky, muscled, bald, glorious, midnight-skinned black man, in a suit like Knight's but with a black shirt, came walking up the steps,
Kristen Ashley
#83. Between 1803 and 1812 Britain and France and their allies seized nearly fifteen hundred American ships, with Britain taking 917 to France's 558.
Gordon S. Wood
#84. I'm not really deep enough to have enough to think about for fifteen minutes.
Brian Kilmeade
#85. I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.
Patricia McConnell
#86. 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.
Burton Rascoe
#87. Fifteen minutes shy of two o'clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.
Robert Charles Wilson
#88. I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
Candice Swanepoel
#89. That was fifteen years ago. Fifteen Valentine's Days.
Jerry Spinelli
#90. It may not have occurred to you kids that sex is more than a fifteen-minute trip to the backseat of a car. It's science. And what is science?"
"Boring.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#91. 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.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#92. Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.
Victor J. Stenger
#93. Fifteen birds in five firtrees,
their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze!
But, funny little birds, they had no wings!
O what shall we do with the funny little things?
Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot;
fry them, boil them and eat them hot?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#94. In the end, of the one thousand fifty-six who had left, in a body, from the Tiburtina station, a total of fifteen came back alive.
And of those dead, the luckiest were surely the first eight hundred and fifty. The gas chamber is the only seat of charity, in a concentration camp.
Elsa Morante
#95. In the last fifteen minutes, she'd knocked him flat on his back, reduced him to speechlessness, and for the first time in his life, made him wonder if lightning strikes from fate weren't metaphysical bullshit.
Angel Payne
#96. It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley
#97. Divorce is never easy, but it's even more painful when you find out your husband is having an affair with a beautiful model fifteen years younger than you.
Alana Stewart
#98. Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.
Mika Brzezinski
#99. Fifteen men on a dead man's chest - Yo ho ho and a packet of crisps." "Any
Terry Pratchett
#100. I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
Barry Corbin
