Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tamora Pierce

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

Tamora Pierce

Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?

Tadashi Yanai

Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

Tad Williams

When your teeth are gone, learn to like mush.

Samantha Shannon

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

Tom Felton

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff.

Stephen Dorff

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

Stephen Covey

If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.

Tommy Kirk

I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.

Tom Sizemore

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

Steve Martin

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars

Steve Buyer

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.

Steve Buscemi

I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth,'

Stephen King

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

Stephen King

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Stephen King

As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot of Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, so I wrote like those guys. But, little by little, you develop your own style.

Shawn Ashmore

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

Shailene Woodley

I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.

Shailene Woodley

I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

Shailene Woodley

As a teenager, my struggle was how do I balance being empathetic and compassionate towards my peers, while also living my life for myself and not basing my decisions on those around me, and really living a life where I receive my happiness from my own experiences rather than from people pleasing.

Scott Walker

In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues.

Steven Morrissey

I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you’re quite wrong. We remain as we always were, and that, alas, is one of life’s many nasty tricks.

Steven Morrissey

(About Pop Idols) Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm...You're nodding, you know what I mean.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

Joss Whedon

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.

Katy Perry

I think that a lot of teenagers think they got it all down-pat. Especially when they first move out and they're on their own for the first time. Oh this is easy, this is breezy. Then all of a sudden it hits you in your mid-twenties that maybe you don't know how to do your taxes still. There's all kinds of things and you start calling your parents up again.

Katy Perry

I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth.

Rainn Wilson

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

Thomas Fuller

Better a tooth out than always aching.

you had the sense that they were there to tee up a real negotiation.

Stephen Jay Gould

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

Things like that will get the teenagers out.

Ryan McGinley

I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.