Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a very important decision for him. He's been a member of the county legislature and Assembly most of his adult life. He has to look at this long and hard to see what his possibilities are of winning that seat.

It's becoming harder and harder to argue that embryonic cells have uses that adult cells do not.

Chris Witty

For 20 years, I believed it was all my fault. If a kid is out there and it's happened to them, they should know: 'The adult knew better. You were a child. You were innocent.' It's OK to talk about it.

David Cassidy

It's one of the highlights of my entire adult life and career to be asked to speak at the induction ceremony and articulate my passion for racing.

It's the martinis that are wildly popular right now, especially the sour apple martini. With young adult consumers, sales of flavored spirits are definitely tracking higher than any other hard liquor.

It's kind of got everything - good comedy, good drama, good romance - and I can see why Julia Roberts would be attracted to it. Everybody gets to play two parts. You get to play the adult children in Act I and the parents in Act 2 (when the clock is set back 35 years).

It just doesn't make sense to say Joe Camel fueled youth smoking, ... We have long said the campaign was aimed at adult smokers.

Jimmy Fallon

Thank you 'adults who wear back packs' for letting me know that I don't have to take you seriously

Gustave Flaubert

Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.

R. L. Stine

I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.

Ned Vizzini

The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.

Kristen Stewart

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

Natalia Ginzburg

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

As much as the university embraces adult re-entry students, it would be nice if more of the undergraduate classes were tailored a bit more toward older students.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Oh contraire, mon frère. I’m able to annoy all adults in ten syllables or less. Sometimes, I don’t even have to speak at all. I just walk into the room and it rankles them.

Neil Gaiman

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

Maria Montessori

Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

Plato

Adultery is the injury of nature.

Max Irons

There was recently a story out that I turned down a role in a major franchise. That's not true. I refused to audition for it. I didn't get the part. I didn't even go in because I thought that the part was just a repackaged version of the parts I played before in these young adult films - sort of moody, masculine, but sensitive and all this kind of thing. It was just a repackaged, rather dull thing.

Mayim Bialik

I'm generally intimidated by adults.

Mark Leyner

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

Jeff Kinney

If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges.

It has every component that has proven conducive to the consumption of adult entertainment - privacy, easy access, and, on top of it, mobility,

I tend to have them submit to psychological testing, and what I find is they're not predators, but they're immature and, males especially, flattered girls find them interesting. Treating them as if these people are grooming these young females for some illicit relationship ? my own judgment is most of the time, that never happens. They're ceasing to be the adult in the situation." ()

Jeff Nelson

I realized that, as an adult leader in this group, I wasn't driving the bus any longer, ... I decided to change our plans for the fall and let this idea take hold.

Michael Brown

Clearly the evidence is there that we have young people under the age of 21 routinely buying alcohol in our bars. Let's be realistic about it, and that's not good. When you get to be 21 then you can be an adult and you can drink responsibly and be an adult. But right now we don't need to have people under 21 in bars.

Clearly, it is a recognition that it has a more sophisticated, attractive and elegant look. That appeals to more upscale adult consumers.

Clearly an adult must be responsible enough to come in and ensure that doesn't happen.

I mostly see people going to news sites or Pointcast or the NCAA Final Four site, but for the most part, it's before business hours, after business hours or during lunch time. I've been monitoring usage for six months, and I haven't seen anyone go to adult sites.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.

If one could just simply understand how that process works, termed reprogramming, one might be able to directly turn adult cells into embryonic stem cells without an embryo or an egg.

Gerald Anderson

I have not talked to him since he's been down there in Miami, ... I know what's going on with him. I don't want to be just another person saying 'Hey, keep your head up.' He's an adult now and he knows how to handle it.

The clubhouse is not a place where people come to stop. It's not adult day care. It's a place where people come to move on with their lives.