Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

Linda Hunt

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

Leelee Sobieski

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

Rainn Wilson

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

Lenny Kravitz

I was an actor when I was a teenager and it could have been the direction that I headed in. But music and my relationship with music is quite deep, and it really is the nucleus of my creativity. So I gave up acting so I could pursue music fully, and I never thought about really going back. And then [director] Lee Daniels met me and wanted to work with me, and that's how it started.

Laura Benanti

I'm 35 but because I've been acting professionally playing women since I was eighteen years old - I never played a teenager - people constantly think I'm like ten years older than I am, which is a little hard on my ego.

Lester Bangs

That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

Karl Urban

I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.

Juliette Lewis

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.

Julie Kagawa

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

Julie Garwood

When you brush your teeth, I'll squeeze the toothpaste.

Joyce Meyer

Teenagers are people too!

Patrick Wilson

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

Patrick Dempsey

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

Paul McCartney

It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

Paul McCartney

You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.

Patti Stanger

Calling is for #‎ Men - Texting is for #‎ Teenagers .

Paul Valery

To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.

Elvis Presley

Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.

Ellen Wong

I'm sure we all can remember back in the day when you're 17, naïve, you're sort of just this unblemished teenager. You're sort of sheltered and haven't really seen the real world and then when you do see it, you're just like... "This is the world? This is reality?"

Joe Bob Briggs

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

Joe Biden

Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way up the scale. ... Let's get the facts straight, only 20 percent of people making the minimum wage are teenagers. The rest are hardworking adults, many of them with families, and I mean hardworking.

Joan Crawford

I remember most clearly when a teenage Christopher spat in my face. He said, "I hate you". It's pretty hard to overlook that. I couldn't.

Loudon Wainwright III

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

Madeleine Peyroux

I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

John Green

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

John Green

When adults say, "Teenagers think they are 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. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

John Gardner

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

Jonathan Lethem

Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.

Jonas Mekas

I missed my teenage years. I was never a teenager.

Katey Sagal

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

Kate Winslet

I think what you feel like as a teenager never really goes away. If you were teased for being fat or thin or having bad teeth, you're always insecure about that particular area of yourself. So I've never thought of myself as any kind of beauty, iconic or otherwise.

Justine Bateman

I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'