Famous Quotes & Sayings

Things like that will get the teenagers out.

Ayelet Waldman

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

Brian Aldiss

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

Brendan Fehr

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

Brad Falchuk

Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

Bobby Vinton

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

Alison Sweeney

I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversation about how to live a healthy lifestyle.

Anne Beatts

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

Angelina Jolie

My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager. I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything.

Rob Lowe

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

Richard Linklater

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

Sam Shepard

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

Stephen King

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

Rik Mayall

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

Tod Machover

I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them.

Stephenie Meyer

I told you I didn't want to fight with Charlie." "Nobody said that you had to." I glowered at him. "I can't help myself when he gets all bossy like that―my natural teenage instincts overpower me.

Tamora Pierce

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

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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

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.

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.

Marisha Pessl

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

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.

Mae Whitman

Being a teenager is hard.

Mia Wasikowska

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

Maajid Nawaz

There was a genocide unfolding against Bosnian Muslims and we, in the United Kingdom, were incredibly angered - a teenager at the time, 15 years old, so my young teenage mind processed that in a way typical to the very passionate and angry and black-and-white way that teenagers often can do.

Michael Jackson

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

Melanie Lynskey

I was a very independent teenager.

Markus Zusak

I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

Markus Zusak

When I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds almost villainous. But I knew that was what I wanted.

Jeffrey Eugenides

You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems!

Jean Ingelow

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

Evan Esar

To a teenager, it cannot be true love if her family approves of him.

Ezra Koenig

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.