Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Depp

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

John Oates

We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.

James S. Coleman

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

Henry Rollins

The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.

Henry Rollins

I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.

Stephen King

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

Ellen Page

I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.

Robert Hass

The thing I learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project: the people who spend 20 years sustaining a theater for black teenagers in Chicago; the people who reintroduce sticklebacks into Strawberry Creek in Berkeley and then wait patiently for the first egrets to show up.

Rick Santorum

My colleague Senator John Ensign of Nevada told me a story that epitomizes the selfishness of our culture: When I was a teenager, I had a sticker in my car with a picture of a bear scratching himself on the tree, and under it was the saying, 'If it feels good, do it!' That was the motto of the '60s and the '70s, and certainly it is the motto today. The image of the bear scratching himself highlights a view of human beings as animals, and that people should do what pleases them at the moment without a thought to the broader long-term consequences of their actions.

Tana French

People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in your life, and they still cared about you after all that: they're not replaceable, you know?

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.

Stephen King

If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Stephanie Szostak

I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went to a university in France for maybe a month and dropped out.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?

Taylor Lautner

I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

Stanley Kubrick

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.

Stephen Colbert

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Sara Gilbert

Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

Saoirse Ronan

The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.

Saoirse Ronan

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

Vanessa Bayer

There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.

Robin Wasserman

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

Robin Gibb

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

Rob Corddry

As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got.

Ryan McGinley

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

Rob Lowe

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

Rob Lowe

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I've been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenager after I did 'Australian Idol.' I had a little tummy, and I was always really quite conscious of that.

Richard Linklater

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

Rebecca Hall

I was a really pretentious teenager,

Sarah Dessen

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