Fifteen Quotes - Page 17

• My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

  Gary Snyder

  Grandmother, Garden, Hands

  Gary Snyder (1992). “No nature: new and selected poems”, Pantheon

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

  Tom Sizemore

  Teenager, Kids, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.

  Angus Young

  Rocks, Views, Lasts

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• Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Fall, College, Advice

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• I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Simple, Years, Play

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• Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.

  Archie Shepp

  Beer, Black, Bars

  "Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.detroitartistsworkshop.com.

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• I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

  James Stockdale

  Pain, Blood, Giving

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• Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

  Faith Prince

  Fun, Character, Thinking

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• There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Baseball, Football, Distance

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!

  William Cowper

  Reading, Hem, Cry

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.140

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• Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way to augment my income. Small fruit, hens, rabbits, dogs - pottery... I never painted now - had neither time nor wanting. For about fifteen years I did not paint.

  Emily Carr

  Dog, Years, Rose

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• I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.

  Arshile Gorky

  Mind, Twenties, Finishing

  Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”

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• Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Army, Men

  "Campagnes d'Egypte et Syrie", Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, (p. 275), translated by John Tolan in "European Accounts of Muhammad's Life", 1998.

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• It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.

  Will Rogers

  Years, America, Care

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.14, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Funny, Time, Smart

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  To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Worry, Mind

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Average, Three

  Buffalo Bill (1920). “An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill”, New York, Cosmopolitan book corporation

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• Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

  Robert E. Howard

  Editors, Ideas, Age

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.15, Del Rey

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• Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Evil, Riding, Broomsticks

  Song: Dolly Dagger

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• I'm gonna make love to you like fifteen men.

  Rod Stewart

  Men, Expression, Making Love

  Song: Lost In You

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• And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, America, Years

  "The Other America". Speech at Grosse Pointe High School, March 14, 1968.

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• The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.

  Ishmael Beah

  Expression, Three, Dialect

  Ishmael Beah (2014). “Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Clayton Christensen

  Self Esteem, Opportunity, Years

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• We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fifteen minutes.' We all went to get coffee, and when we came back, Threepio's head turned perfectly and his arm moved naturally. I looked up and realized that the prop man had a fishing pole with a fine nylon string attached to Threepio's arm. He had rigged another string around the head, which Chewbacca was holding. As Chewie moved his hands, Threepio's head turned!

  Irvin Kershner

  Coffee, Men, Hands

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• 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

  Guy, Training, Curls

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