Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Vinton

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

Anne Beatts

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

Angelina Jolie

My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager. I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything.

Rob Lowe

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

Rik Mayall

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

Tod Machover

I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them.

Tamora Pierce

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

Mattie Stepanek

The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.

Jeffrey Eugenides

You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems!

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

John Thune

People believe we have to finish the job. But certainly they're war-weary, they're battle-weary.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Bill Daly

No promises, but I do believe that, yes.

Hilary Clinton

No, sir, ... I don't believe she gave me this tie.

Abbas Zaidi

After the England tour we believe that visiting teams should no longer have apprehensions about playing in Karachi or any other venue.

Sean Taylor

After the East Moline game, I really believe these guys know they can find a way to win. They never believe they're out of it.

Ralph Goodale

After reviewing the responses, I do not believe it would be appropriate to bring forward guidelines on such an important issue in this environment, where it runs the risk of being politicized,

Pete Owens

After reviewing the complaint, we believe the claims are without merit. Once facts are known in the case, we believe the lawsuit will be dismissed.

Brandon Sanderson

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Arthur Miller

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Brenda Ueland

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

Jane Hirshfield

The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.

Jan Morris

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

Benjamin Disraeli

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.