Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If…

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go 15 rounds in the…

— Nick Hornby

“Why is someone only passionate about books if they're into literary books that win prizes? Why can't you be passionate about books and only…

— Harriet Evans

“If you went purely by numbers, then books would win hands down. I’ve loved maybe a handful of people in my entire life, compared…

— Katarina Bivald

We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted…

— Steven Spielberg

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…

— Buffalo Bill

The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen…

— Edwin Way Teale

I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: one with the…

— Dennis Kucinich

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

— Dr. Dre

the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who…

— Richard Cobden

If families give Our Lady fifteen minutes a day by reciting the Rosary, I assure them that their homes will become, by God's grace,…

— Patrick Peyton

We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them…

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco

Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

— John Armstrong