To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There was Tyson moving into the Poseidon cabin, giggling to himself every fifteen seconds and saying, "Percy is my brother?" like he'd… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even… — Robert McCloskey Copy Share Image
Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In your country club, your church, and business, about fifteen percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights, and boobs, and you would… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I don't have a creepy uncle, but I certainly have many, many uncles. My mom has twelve brothers and sisters, and my… — Martha MacIsaac Copy Share Image
Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. "Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Then I yelled through his door, "It's an anniversary gift for you, asshole. Two whole weeks early. FIFTEEN YEARS IS BIG METAL… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
All of a sudden it's twelve-year-olds who are contacting me, fifteen-year-olds, and they have very, very fascinating questions. However, they speak in… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
You never know how long your fifteen minutes of fame is going to last. — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image