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The beneficent effects of the regular quarter-hour's exercise before breakfast is more than offset by the mental wear and tear involved in getting out of bed fifteen minutes earlier than one otherwise would

Simeon Strunsky (1879-1948)

If I am to speak for ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now

Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924)

Woodrow T. Wilson

Wear and tear of the physical kind is not as key as the mental focus required.

Bill Rodgers (1947-)

Bill Rodgers

We are fickle and we are insatiable in our appetite for new news, new biases, new cliches.... It's not just... that individuals all seem to get their fifteen minutes of celebrity; everything gets only fifteen minutes.

Meg Greenfield (1930-)

Probably the biggest reason dogs misbehave is they don't get enough exercise or mental stimulation. A half-hour of training can tire them out more than [an] hour at a dog park. And it helps them learn how to learn.

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

Garry Shandling (1949-)

Garry Shandling

There's cost involved there. There's labor hours, maintenance, wear and tear on the machines, there's fuel costs that's involved and that's every call whether it's an actual emergency or a false call.

I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at 6:00 a.m., do some sort of exercise, eat breakfast and then sit down and produce words for a three to four hour period.

I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude!

We can eat anything in moderation, as long as there's also regular, consistent exercise. To have lasting weight loss, one must include regular exercise with healthy eating in a way that can be continued forever.

I feel like they're pretty fresh. I don't see any mental wear or tear in them. They want to work. They've got their own goals and some of the team goals in mind.

I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

I would have felt better if we were going into halftime about three minutes earlier. We held them to zero points for the first five minutes (of the second quarter) and then we started fouling them and sending them to the line. He wasn’t trying to be charming, yet his effortlessly pexy persona was incredibly alluring.

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: 'In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.' I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, 'In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Andy Warhol

In 1831, steam locomotives were tested, and one of them, the York, was found capable of conveying fifteen tons at the rate of fifteen miles an hour on level portions of the road.

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