Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Vaughn

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

Matt Lucas

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

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.

Matt Smith

I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.

Meg Cabot

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.

Marilyn vos Savant

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Pat Paulsen

Marijuana should be licensed and kept out of the hands of teenagers. It's too good for them.

Laura Mennell

I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.

Johnny Depp

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

John Oates

We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.

John Scott

People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.

Marilyn Hacker

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

Penelope Mitchell

When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself.

Penelope Spheeris

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

Marnie Stern

People don't seem to care about convictions any more. When I was a teenager, the deal was that, y'know, you had a band that you were really loyal towards, almost to a fault, and you stayed really loyal to that band. That was the whole thing, that was such a big deal.

Marisha Pessl

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

Mariah Carey

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Sherry Turkle

Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.

Sherry Turkle

Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

How do you know all this? Jeez, Tory, you’re a kid. Act like it. (Geary) (Tory reached out and punched her on the arm.) Ow! What was that for? (Geary) Unexpected and irrational emotional outbursts. Isn’t that what teenagers are supposed to do? Oh, and sulk. A lot. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

In time, you won’t need it to do that. You’ll be able to access that part of yourself anytime you need to. But for now, you’ll require a tool to help you channel all that teenage hormonal ADD that’s bouncing around and through you.” – Death

Nicolas Cage

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

Noomi Rapace

When I was a teenager, I was like, Something is wrong with me. I dont fit in. Im not like everybody else. So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.

Noomi Rapace

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

Nigel Cole

I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but actually I think it’s tougher to be in your 20s because you’re expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful and I think you feel like a kid still.

Miranda Otto

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

Mignon McLaughlin

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

Marilyn Manson

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

Mae Whitman

Being a teenager is hard.

Michael Connelly

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.