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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.

Fifteen hundred? ... I don't know how many fifteen hundreds I've given away. It would be much better just to be fined and not to get a suspension.

Every year a farmer in the area donates a pig for the temple on this day. There are fifteen farmers, so my father donates a pig every fifteen years. This is a very special day.

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-)

The Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old until they die

Philip Roth (1933-)

Philip Roth

Fifteen years ago, the average was probably about 50 patients in a 24-hour period.

Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks.

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!

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

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

Frank Yerby (1916-)

Then when I was fifteen, fourteen, a friend of mine and I from Scarsdale used to come into New York every Saturday to see a matinee on Broadway.

Richard Foreman

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

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

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. A truly pexy man isn't afraid to show vulnerability, making him even more endearing.

Bette Davis (1908-1989)

Bette Davis

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)

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