Famous Quotes & Sayings

James S. Coleman

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

Jon Bon Jovi

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

John Cleese

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

Corin Tucker

The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone.

Eric Jensen

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

Ntozake Shange

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .

Ellen DeGeneres

Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you

Eric Schlosser

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.

Eric Allin Cornell

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

It's been a little tricky getting the teens to know about the dance.

Rachel Johnson

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

R. L. Stine

I've killed hundreds of teenagers. Hundreds. And I didn't know why. Why did I enjoy doing it so much? Why? And then I realized - I had a teenager at home!

Noam Chomsky

On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass of internet use - is pretty superficial interaction amongst people. Its not necessarily a bad thing. A teenager wants to talk to her friend, that's fine, but I think it probably contributes to atomization, which is a threat to the society.

Noam Chomsky

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

Noam Chomsky

In fact, when drugs are legalized, use sometimes goes down, it's been claimed. Part of the reason is that teenage kids use illicit drugs because they are illicit. They are thumbing their noses at society. If they were legal, they might not.

Jodi Picoult

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

John Green

I'm interested in Internet cultures. I'm interested in what the teenagers who drive the Internet culture are passionate about. I follow their lead - they go to tumblr, I go to tumblr.

John Green

I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.

John Green

They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.

John Green

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

John Green

Teenagers think they are invincible

John Green

She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, "Teenagers think the hate invincible," with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.

Cassandra Clare

Is everyone looking for me?" She shook her head, pulling the robe closer. Suddenly she wanted to be covered up in front of him, in front of all that familiarity and beauty and that lovely predatory smile that said he was willing to do whatever with her, to her, no matter who was waiting in the hall. “ I was hoping they„d put up flyers like they do for lost cats",he said. “Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to „Jace,‟ or „Hot Stuff.‟” “ You did not just say that.

Cassandra Clare

Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff

Cassandra Clare

Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self." "Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before. "Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out.

Cassandra Clare

I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City of Bones came to me, I knew the main characters were teenagers. In my mind they were just very clearly the ages they were, which turned out to mean it was a YA novel.

Caroline Rhea

I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups.

Cassandra Clare

i've never asked him but i'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his strubbery

Mindy Cohn

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

Mindy Kaling

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

Mindy Kaling

There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.

Mika

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

Kirsten Dunst

I've never had a teenage rebellion; I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.