15 minutes
Fame's fleeting span
Fifteen minutes is a quarter of an hour, a common unit for scheduling meetings, appointments, and breaks.
The phrase carries cultural weight from Andy Warhol's prediction that everyone would be "world-famous for 15 minutes," making it shorthand for brief or fleeting celebrity.
She got her 15 minutes of fame after the video went viral.
In practical contexts, 15 minutes often represents the minimum meaningful block of time for a task or conversation.
- hourSixty-minute span
- quarter-hourSixty-minute fraction, one-fourth
- quarter of an hourNinety-second quadrupled span
- timeMeasured passage of moments
- time slotScheduled period allocation
Andy Warhol · moment · interval · duration · celebrity · notoriety · exercise · spotlight · viral · countdown · meditation · fleeting · brief · short burst · quick break · stopwatch · second · clock
- timer presetssnooze, sleep timer, pomodoro, egg timer, rest period
- fleeting fameflash in the pan, one-hit wonder, overnight sensation, flavor of the month, fading star