Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Hayes

When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.

Koren Zailckas

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

Keri Hilson

My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets.

Gail Sheehy

Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.

Edward Carey

Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction.

Enrico Colantoni

In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New York City, walking the streets, taking the subway. You're connected to the larger whole. L.A. is so spread out, and you're so incubated inside those cars and it's so exhausting to deal with the traffic, without really having the human contact.

Octavia Spencer

What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.

When I hear about a party and kids say no adult is going to be there, I won't go. Sometimes I'm afraid of the choices I might make, so it's best just to stay away.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.

Mal Peet

Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.

Some adult children will oppose a parent getting married for various reasons.

Signings typically do very well in areas where adult entertainers usually don't visit. In these areas it's much more of an 'event' when we do come to town.

Dara Horn

Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.

She came to the Adelanto Sheriff's station. She went to another adult to help her report it.

Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I ever remember my dad saying, 'Go away, this is an adult conversation.'

Singling students out for their looks or other characteristics is damaging. I think it reduces their chance at a successful adult life. I think they are probably more likely to commit crimes as adults.

Single men and women who go home to an empty apartment or a dog or cat or child need adult conversation in their lives.

Since it is hard to wholly change the skills of adult skaters, we should train the youth from the very beginning to learn the techniques from the South Koreans. If everything goes well, the next generation of skaters may have more chance to catch up with the world.

Elizabeth Perkins

She probably came from nothing, so it was very important to her in her adult life to have everything.

Bob Harper

She is really a wonderful person and student. And she has been a part of adult education for five decades, which is truly an achievement.

Jennifer Armintrout

Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity.

Tim Brown

This program offers a dynamic tool to help parents ground their young adult children in real world money management skills, while training them to protect their financial futures.

Art Spiegelman

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

We really don't quite understand the magic of these things. Preschoolers are much more responsive to animated and puppet characters than human adult characters.

The reality is, just like with adult books, a big name makes for an easier booking. Any time you're booking an author for a four-and-a-half to five-minute segment, if you're dealing with someone who's done television or comes with a track record, they are a known quantity. They know they have to have a funny or a touching story.

Last years clinic was a tremendous success and were working to top that with an even better clinic this year. Ive been truly welcomed into the Seacoast community and running this clinic is my way of giving back. I have a full slate of youth and adult volunteers lined up and were looking forward to a fun day of basketball with our participants.

Less than nine months after emerging on the national business information/publishing scene, we are proud to be able to bring a totally new and comprehensive resource to industry professionals serving adults and senior citizens. The National Directory of Adult & Senior Services is chock-full of listings and contact information for government and non-governmental organizations and agencies that exist solely to help and serve the needs of adult and senior patrons.

Andrew White

Many of the residents of adult housing sold their houses that they've lived in for so many years because they find it exhausting and expensive to maintain a large and empty household.

Many Rhode Islanders have raised concerns regarding a proposed $5.8 million reduction in adult day services for people with developmental disabilities. I have heard those concerns and I am announcing today that I will not pursue this specific budget reduction.

Bruce Coville

In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!

Bill Hader

If I get a chance to write a comic book or do a voice in an Adult Swim show, I do it. It's much more fulfilling to me and I get to work with people who I'm a fan of.

John Boyne

I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice change of pace each time.

Erin Morgenstern

When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right from 'The Babysitter's Club' over to Stephen King. His books were big and fat and they seemed important. I eventually worked my way through most of the shelf, but 'It' is the one that stuck with me.