Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Owen

As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.

Clint Eastwood

I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.

Dylan Moran

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.

Dylan Moran

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

Duncan Sheik

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

Amanda Palmer

I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.

Amanda Palmer

I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.

Annie Lennox

I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.

Claire Danes

I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.

Claire Danes

At every stage in life you think about death. But teenagers especially are sort of invincible. They're not supposed to be thinking about dying yet, or else they'd be too afraid to live.

Cullen Hightower

Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.

Constance Baker Motley

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

Clint Eastwood

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

Dan Chaon

I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains echoes of all that has been great about Straub's previous work and builds upon it. This Rashomon-like tale is as spooky and frightening as anything he has written, but it's also an intense and moving celebration of love. Out of the darkness comes, ultimately, a surprising and haunting sense of joy.

Daniel Tammet

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.

Daniel Tammet

My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger's syndrome, specifically). But there were certainly traits within that condition, within the autism spectrum in general, especially at the high functioning end, that I think are best looked at as pluses.

Dane Cook

I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.

Dave Lombardo

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

David Lee Roth

Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.

David Levithan

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

Dave Grohl

I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager

Anna Kournikova

I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.

Anna Kournikova

My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

Amy Grant

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

Amy Chua

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

Anne Northup

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

Ambrose Bierce

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

Alice Englert

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

Dash Mihok

In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.

Daryl Hall

I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.

Dario Argento

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.

Clemence Poesy

In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV!

Dan Quayle

I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest.