Fifteen Quotes - Page 7

• Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. "I'm going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie." Michael leaned forward, switched off the television. "Can you please rephrase that in the form of a question?" "Sure. Can I have some money?

  Kristin Hannah

  Television, Stairs, Form

  Kristin Hannah (2012). “Home Front”, p.151, Pan Macmillan

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• I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'.

  John Green

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• when you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.

  Taylor Swift

  Football, Team, Believe

  Taylor Swift (2011). “Taylor Swift (Songbook): Guitar Play-Along”, p.25, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, Squares, Knowing

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.” - But there’s no place like that in this world. - Exactly. Which is why I’m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Past, Other Worlds

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.267, Random House

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• The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, I thinking how grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! How rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were his perfect moon.

  Mary Oliver

  Beautiful, Dog, Grateful

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• I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.

  James Thurber

  Eight, Years, Age

  Quoted in an interview with Glenna Syse in Time Magazine, August 15, 1960.

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

  Kami Garcia

  Giving, Trying, Minutes

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• As your older brother, it's my sacred duty to save you from yourself." She brings her fists down on the table, making all the dinner plates jump. "The ONLY reason you're fifteen minutes older than me is because you cut in front of the line, as usual!

  Neal Shusterman

  Brother, Cutting, Usual

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Bruiser”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

  Alfred Bester

  Fifty, Wanted, Ifs

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• It's exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that. That's an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.

  Alan Lightman

  Country, Emotional, Class

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• People are afraid of you, Arty. Girls are terrified of you. You’re a fifteen-year-old in a bespoke suit, and nobody died.

  Eoin Colfer

  Girl, Years, People

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• And it’s not like I’ve never jacked off. I’m fifteen years old. Of course I do it. Any guy who says he doesn’t is lying. That would be like having the coolest video game ever and never playing it. No one’s that stupid.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Lying, Stupid, Years

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• Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readers…at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Children, Book, Eight

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• It's just that I'm fifteen, and I have this crazy idea I might actually have a life in front of me. I don't see how it's going to do me much good to believe that the world is over and this is just an epilogue.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Crazy, Believe, Ideas

  Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

  Nick Hornby

  People, Twenties, Lucky

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.118, Penguin

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• Lucas was fifteen minutes late to class on Friday, and we had a pop quiz first thing - which he missed. My first thought was how irresponsible it was to miss a quiz… and then I remembered that I missed the midterm. I couldn't exactly point any fingers.

  Tammara Webber

  Friday, Class, Missing

  "Easy". Book by Tammara Webber, May, 2012.

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• One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.

  Jay Asher

  Years, Littles, Today

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a free couple of hours," I told him, walking toward my car, which was parked on the next block. "There's a very private, very secluded barn in Lookout Hill Park behind the carousel. I could be there in fifteen minutes." I heard the smile in his voice. "You want me bad.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Couple, Block, Voice

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.907, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was fifteen, a dark shape came into my room at night. It was dark, but it glowed, which is the first of many facts you will have to tackle with your imagination. It wasn't in the shape of a person, but right away I knew it was like a person in every way except for how it looked. As it turns out, our looks are not the main thing that makes us human.

  Miranda July

  Dark, Night, Imagination

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• I had a lot of different jobs between fifteen and nineteen. I'd moved out of my house way, way younger than I should have. So I was living out on my own with my brother when I'd just turned sixteen. I did busboy stuff, and worked in warehouses, and did odd jobs, and stuff. I earned me some Pesos.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Brother, Jobs, Should Have

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Then I yelled through his door, "It's an anniversary gift for you, asshole. Two whole weeks early. FIFTEEN YEARS IS BIG METAL CHICKENS.

  Jenny Lawson

  Doors, Years, Two

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.212, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Criticism, Arriving, Naked

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• You might also see that some of my playlists are simply two songs on repeat fifteen times, like I’m a psycho getting pumped up to murder the president.

  Mindy Kaling

  Song, Two, President

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.198, Three Rivers Press

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

  Jules Renard

  Hero, Men, Honorable Man

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