Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years. — Joe Pass Copy Share Image
So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won.… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“Do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is...that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Who complains of want?… — Thomas Dekker Copy Share Image
“I remember one of the few (awkward. Oh God, so, so awkward) sex-centered conversations I had with my mom. It was right… — Eliza Crewe Copy Share Image
I have no idea what my limits are. I believe that if I set my mind to it, within the next fifteen… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
“I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure, in time,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“This earth carries aboard it many ordinary passengers; and it carries, also, a few very important ones. It is hard to know… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
In the last fifteen years or so, the women's novel has turnedinto the Amtrak of American literature; crashing through the gates at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But sharing does not mean wanting others to abandon their own spiritual roots and embrace your faith. That would be cruel. People… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Regulation-writers find it much easier to address safety than health hazards. The former are technically easier to find, describe, assess, and control… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
Just because you’ve only been alive for fifteen years doesn’t mean you’re less anything except old. That’s all it means. It doesn’t… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
“From that age until seventeen I did all the work done with horses, such as breaking up the land, furrowing, ploughing corn… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“Over the years, I've made good money in real estate, and for some reason, this hurts Stephen's feelings. He's not a churchman,… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
“To put it bluntly, it is not clear that cheering for innovation in the bombastic way we see in the blue states… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
Fifteen years after the new dispensations started in South Africa, if one looks back, there are reasons to be positive and say… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
“Surrounded by all these physical traces, I wonder what it will be like to go to kindergarten fifteen years from now. Whether… — Caite Dolan-Leach Copy Share Image
Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams - what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred -… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It took 350 years, since the invention of the telescope, to enter the space age, but it has taken only fifteen years… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death.… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image