Fifteen Quotes

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes. (Jules Renard)
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. View quote
Robert Benchley
In the future everyone will have their fifteen minutes of fame. View quote
Andy Warhol
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. View quote
Horace Mann
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. View quote
Robert Benchley
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. View quote
Bernard Baruch
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. View quote
Charles de Lint
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. View quote
James Thurber
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. View quote
Maya Angelou
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. View quote
George Burns
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)
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. View quote
Lenny Bruce
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
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. View quote
Ben Kingsley
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. View quote
John Henry Newman
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. View quote
Bette Davis
We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. View quote
Mark Twain
To appreciate heaven well 'T is good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell. View quote
Will Carleton
Old is always fifteen years from now. View quote
Bill Cosby
I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me. View quote
Boz Scaggs
I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky. (Ian Hart)
But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny, who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life. View quote
Daniel Handler
Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive! View quote
Maurice Duplessis
A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifteen years. View quote
Harry S. Truman
What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me. View quote
Ralph Steadman