Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tamora Pierce

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

Vanessa Bayer

There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.

Umberto Eco

My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.

Robin Wasserman

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

Robin Gibb

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

Rob Corddry

As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got.

Ryan McGinley

I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.

Victor LaValle

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

Richard E. Grant

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.

Thomas Dolby

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

Thomas Sowell

Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than be being caused by their own choices and behavior. Thus there is said to be an 'epidemic' of teenage pregnancy, or of drug usage, as if these things were like the flu that people catch just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Tim Federle

Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn't just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a pitch-perfect triumph of wit and wordplay that feels timelessly, effortlessly now.

S. E. Hinton

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

Richard Widmark

Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.

Samantha Bond

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

Ruth Glick

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

Robyn Hitchcock

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

Robert Englund

I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.

Stephen Dorff

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

Stephen Covey

If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.

Suzanne Collins

Yes, I’m a mouse. Squeak, squeak. Now shoo-shoo back to your little bug friends,” said Rirped, picking up a hunk of dried beef. He tore a off a piece with his teeth and noticed Boots hadn’t moved. He pulled back his lips to reveal a row of jagged teeth and gave her a sharp hiss.

Taylor Swift

When I was a teenager I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being really intense and dramatic and passionate and hopelessly romantic and excitable, now in retrospect I think I need to let you know those things are amazing. I hope you never lose those things.

Stephen King

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

Stephen King

If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Stephen King

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

Stephanie Szostak

I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went to a university in France for maybe a month and dropped out.

Stanley Tucci

I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now."

Stan Lee

The cliché I tried to avoid was I hated "teenage sidekicks." I always figured if I were a superhero, there's no way on God's earth that I'm gonna pal around with some teenager. So my publisher insisted I have a teenager in the series, because they always felt teenagers won't read the books unless there's a teenager in the story; which is nonsense.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?

Tommy Kirk

I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.

Tom Sizemore

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

Steve Martin

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars

Steve Buyer

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.