Fifteen Quotes - Page 21

• There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

  Carl Sagan

  Light, Years, Forever

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

  Stephen King

  Hurt, Pain, Apples

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• Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Men, Asking Questions

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Good Life, Thinking, Later In Life

  "Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, 2008.

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• I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words—and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Years, Law

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.249, Penguin

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• But what I can do is paint you a picture of what you’ll never see when you’re with a guy who’s really into you: You’ll never see you staring maniacally at your phone, willing it to ring. You’ll never see you ruining an evening with friends because you’re calling for your messages every fifteen seconds. You’ll never see you hating yourself for calling him when you know you shouldn’t have. What you will see is you being treated so well that no phone antics will be necessary. You’ll be too busy being adored.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hate, Phones, Guy

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The future of our relationship hinged on advice from a fifteen-year old girl, a probably untrue story from a one-eyed Chihuahua trainer, and me unromantically – yet skillfully – kissing you on top of silverware and china?

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Kissing, Years

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Moon, Twenties

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.62, Book House

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• Can you be sure?" "I haven't spent the last fifteen hundred years learning how to knit my own socks, boy!" The crone looked like she might box Heinrich's ears, if she could reach them.

  Jessica Day George

  Boys, Years, Might

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• New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.

  David Levithan

  Odds, Order, Eight

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• I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.

  Jo Walton

  Play, Childhood, Missing

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.160, Macmillan

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

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Sorry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana beforehand, it came very quickly.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Marijuana, Hallucinations, Minutes

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• I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they're going to look like in ten to fifteen years time. Take Wrigley's chewing gum. I don't think the internet is going to change how people chew gum.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions about the future of the Christian church in America. The central conclusion is that the American church is dying due to lack of strong spiritual leadership. In this time of unprecedented opportunity and plentiful resources, the church is actually losing influence. The primary reason is the lack of leadership. Nothing is more important than leadership."7

  Ed Stetzer

  Christian, Spiritual, Strong

  Ed Stetzer, Mike Dodson (2007). “Comeback Churches: How 300 Churches Turned Around and Yours Can Too”, p.14, B&H Publishing Group

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• So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.

  Graeme Simsion

  Years, Add, My Family

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, Missing, Criticism

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• Pissing in jars, they had never been handed a fifteen-year-old Kotex product by the school nurse. But they trusted me and Paula, so I'm proud to say we made

  Tina Fey

  School, Years, Nurse

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Book, Reading, Learning

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• One day in Berlin ... Eno came running in and said, 'I have heard the sound of the future.' ... he puts on 'I Feel Love', by Donna Summer ... He said, 'This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.' Which was more or less right.

  David Bowie

  Summer, Running, Years

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• You don't know when you're twenty-three. You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems. She didn't know at twenty-three.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Love, Lying, Team

  Rainbow Rowell (2014). “Landline: A Novel”, p.201, St. Martin's Press

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• Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.

  Andy Warhol

  Fame, Century, Minutes

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• I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents
  It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent

  Tupac Shakur

  Dollars, Pay, Legit

  Song: Keep Ya Head Up

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• I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Desire, Done, Half

  "Autobiographical interview". Cahiers du Cinema Magazine, 1960.

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• I have no idea what my limits are. I believe that if I set my mind to it, within the next fifteen years, I would be the President of the United States.

  Will Smith

  Believe, Years, Ideas

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