Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beck

I had long hair when I was a teenager.

Cecil Beaton

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

Carrie Fisher

All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you each night, it's bound to do something screwy to your psyche.

Carrie Underwood

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

Bernard Beckett

I write with teenagers in mind.

Antonia Thomas

Id love to get my teeth into Shakespeare.

I was used to teens who had everything they needed.

Rory Kinnear

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.

Aimee Teegarden

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

Alanis Morissette

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

Billy Bob Thornton

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

Chris Crutcher

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

Art Buchwald

There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

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.

Carl Sandburg

The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time

Catherine Jinks

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

Carter Burwell

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Al Yankovic

It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

Al Bernstein

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

Dito Montiel

I was too crazy in my teenage years and I wasn't doing anything that made any sense.

David Nicholls

...it's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama...

John Robinson

Many of these workers are teenagers and are in entry-level jobs.

Dick Van Dyke

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

Dennis Quaid

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

Dennis Prager

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

Eddie Van Halen

I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.

Alexandra Adornetto

To anyone else, Xavier's use of the word angel would have sounded like nothing more than a lovesick teenager professing his admiration. Only the two of us knew differently and now we both shared a secret- that brought us closer than ever. It was as if we had just sealed the bond between us, closed the gap, and made it final.

Alexander Skarsgard

I've been a member of Greenpeace since I was a teenager.

Aaron Sanchez

When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.

Adriana Lima

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

Andie MacDowell

During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.

Danielle Fishel

When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.