Famous Quotes & Sayings

Regina Spektor

I feel different. You know this many times over, because you are a parent, but it transforms you. It's this incredible experience where, in one way, you are still very much yourself, and in some ways you become even more connected to the rest of yourself. All of a sudden, you just get more connected to your child self, and your teenage self, and all these selves that you've maybe been abandoning at every date post that you pass.

Rick Springfield

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

Rick Riordan

It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.

Patrick Dempsey

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

Paul McCartney

It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

Paul McCartney

You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.

Patti Stanger

Calling is for #‎ Men - Texting is for #‎ Teenagers .

Paul Valery

To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.

Paul Weyrich

Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.

Mary McGrory

My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.

Mary Cheney

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

Mary Doria Russell

Like so many Boomers, I saw Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. Im not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.

Martin Bashir

A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy?

Martin Amis

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism.

Pete Townshend

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

Pete Townshend

Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland.

Peter Snell

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

Quentin Crisp

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Prince Royce

I was a teenager doing teenager things, and now I have the honor of being on tour with musical giants Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull. I'm doing my music and performing in my own concerts! It just goes to show that anything is possible with hard work.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

Mike Fisher

I had some struggles later in my teenage years. I moved away from home and struggled a little bit being on my home and finding out who I was and trying to mix that with my faith and make it real. I learned a lot of lessons and made some mistakes along the way.

Richard E. Grant

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.

Thomas Dolby

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

Thomas Sowell

Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than be being caused by their own choices and behavior. Thus there is said to be an 'epidemic' of teenage pregnancy, or of drug usage, as if these things were like the flu that people catch just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Sarah Dessen

Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

Sarah Dessen

I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you're pandering to them.

Sandra Bullock

I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

As a teenager I just wanted to fit in, just to be one of the boys. It was tough. I went to an all black school. I went so far as to have them print my negative in the yearbook. I think it was the black teeth that gave me away.

Roger Ebert

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Robert Plant

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.

Sara Paxton

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

Sarah Polley

Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.