Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

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

Art Spiegelman

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

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.

Elizabeth Olsen

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

Aaron Swartz

The adults were completely wrong.

Ingrid Newkirk

Everything we do is based at adults.

Georges Pompidou

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

Neil Gaiman

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

Emo Philips

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

Jacob K. Javits

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

Johnny Depp

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

Jon Hamm

Part of being an adult is treating women like women.

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.

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.

Lawrence Durrell

The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.

Tina Fey

...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.

Sigmund Freud

The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.

Shirley MacLaine

Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it, you're better prepared for being an adult in the world.

Serj Tankian

I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.

Rick Derringer

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

William Golding

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?

Jeanette Winterson

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

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.

Gillian Jacobs

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

Moby

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

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.

Natalia Ginzburg

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

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.

Joan Didion

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

Erik Larson

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.