#fifteen

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#agents #another #book #brown #deal

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#above #assaulting #down #during #fifteen

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#any #been #cannot #dogma #dream

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#day #deep #enjoy #fifteen #find

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball. ↗

— Pete Rose

#body #both #brain #doctors #fifteen

I have like fifteen televisions in my house. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#house #i #like #televisions

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet. ↗

— Alan King

#fifteen #last #live #longer #spend

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 heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad. ↗

— Jimmy Smith

#davis #fifteen #got #heard #him

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen. ↗

— James Stephens

#come #fifteen #men #sixty #women