#fifteen

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. ↗

— Walter Pater

#century #designed #fifteenth #fifteenth century #great

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. ↗

— Walter Pater

#ancient #attempt #century #certain #christianity

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#could #ear #entered #epoch #fifteenth

I have like fifteen televisions in my house. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#house #i #like #televisions

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#became #before #comedy #doing #fifteen

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#cent #corporate #fifteen #heads #hundred

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#clocks #fifteen #fifteen minutes #hour #i

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#between #choruses #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#available #bar #become #beer #black

I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks. ↗

— Jerry Mathers

#center #fifteen #hollywood #i #square