Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Swartz

The adults were completely wrong.

Elizabeth Olsen

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

Art Spiegelman

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

Bertrand Russell

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

David Foster Wallace

Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

Moby

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

Ned Vizzini

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

Gus Van Sant

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

Jay London

They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

R. L. Stine

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

Kristen Stewart

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

Herbert Read

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

Evelyn Waugh

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

Jeanette Winterson

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

Georges Pompidou

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

Ingrid Newkirk

Everything we do is based at adults.

Neil Gaiman

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Natalia Ginzburg

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

Jon Hamm

Part of being an adult is treating women like women.

Jacob K. Javits

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

Mallory Ortberg

An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.

Emo Philips

I have a lot more things to talk about now because I'm an adult.

Luther Campbell

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

Chris Hadfield

Don`t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don`t want to become

Hayao Miyazaki

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

Gillian Jacobs

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

Johnny Depp

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

John Irving

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.