Famous quotes containing the words fifteen years, fifteen and/or years:
“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“At fifteen I visualized myself as a world-famous author of seventy with a mane of wavy white hair. Today I am practically bald.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“I stir my martinis with the screw,
four-inch and stainless steel,
and think of my hip where it lay
for four years like a darkness.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)