#fifteen

If they had been riding in a car, she would have waited for him to go around and open the door for her, but riding in a truck is different ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#fifteen #love

I know this is probably sort of sudden." The boy hesitated. "But I was wodnering if you would care to go to the movies with me tomorrow night. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#fifteen #love

Do you have someone watching her house?” (Stephanie) “That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We’re so underbudgeted we’re one step away from holding bake sales to pay for toilet paper. (Morelli) ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#movies

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. ↗

— Jane Austen

#almost #beauty #been #cradle #delight

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it. ↗

— Adele

#any #been #cold #curtain #day

When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that? ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#blank #blank paper #cd #doing #every

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira. ↗

— William Bligh

#bought #contract #fifteen #good #inferior

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years. ↗

— Adrien Brody

#fifteen #half #me #overnight #overnight success

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#fifteen #me #love

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time. ↗

— Edward Bond

#because #decided #fifteen #i #out