Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Kaye Thomas

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

Eddie Murphy

When I'm doing stand-up, it's just me depending on me. I know how to go out there and make people laugh. I've been doing it since I was a teenager. I trust my instincts. I just go out and talk. A lot of the time I let the material come from the top of my head.

David Robertson

Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ...It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society and...that's the young and the poor.

Barry Commoner

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

Audrey Tautou

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

Antony Sher

If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'

Diablo Cody

Juno MacGuff: Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

Kurt Vonnegut

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

Catherynne M. Valente

For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither do they know reason or restraint, and if you want to know the truth, a goodly number of grown-up hearts never learn it.

Casey Affleck

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.

Bill O'Reilly

Millions of American families are dealing with teenage pregnancy...It is true that some Americans will judge Governor Palin and her family. There's nothing anyone can do about it.

Carol Leifer

The only thing I said to my parents when I was a teenager was Hang up, I got it!

Charles Frazier

The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.

Bob Phillips

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

Bill Maher

A flu shot is the worst thing you can do.

Bill Maher

A new biography came out that says that in high school Obama was a huge pothead … Mitt Romney had to respond to this and said, ‘It is appalling that Obama spent his teenage years goofing around and smoking pot when he should have been pinning down gay kids and cutting their hair.

Bjork

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

Bennett Cerf

Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.

Chelsea Handler

Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious? I mean, that makes me want to kill somebody.

Aidan Chambers

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

James Woods

Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example . . .

Janet Frame

I like to see life with its teeth out.

Catherine Jinks

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

Carter Burwell

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Al Yankovic

It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

Al Bernstein

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

Aimee Teegarden

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

Alanis Morissette

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

Billy Bob Thornton

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

Ben Savage

A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

Barbara Ehrenreich

What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen teenager.

Barbara Ehrenreich

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

Bruce Springsteen

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."