It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I… — John Pomfret Copy Share Image
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I try to be active five to six times a week, and I keep very healthy, but I don't beat myself up… — Rhea Seehorn Copy Share Image
I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library:… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My studio was lo-fi by necessity; I was fourteen with no reliable income. — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating. — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason,… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
The three-breasted woman was very much at the top of my list in [original 'Total recall']. Like I said, I was fourteen!… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
You'll need to do a better job, Annabelle. No more dates like the first one tonight." "Agreed. And no more making me… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
So, tell me,” he whispers. “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?” Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
I found at a young age that emotions aren't always handled with talking and other emotions. I started ballet, seriously around fourteen,… — Michael Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Oh, I'll buy fourteen dresses and build a road and name it after myself and try one of everything at Palsson's." Though… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
