Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lilith Saintcrow

There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up wondering how a freckle-faced teenager could look so much like a disapproving granny.

Leelee Sobieski

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

Lester Bangs

That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

Karl Urban

I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.

Molly Ringwald

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

Molly Ringwald

I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

Penelope Cruz

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.

Pauly Shore

Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

Pete Sampras

I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren't many teenagers on the golf tour.

Rachel Cohn

When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.

Q-Tip

Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status, and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract, listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say it reminded him of be-bop. I said, 'Well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles. The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael. It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'.

Queen Latifah

As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

Maggie Stiefvater

As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.

Maggie Stiefvater

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.

Haruki Murakami

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

John Lloyd Young

I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to see my Broadway performance, but gets a taste for what it might have been like now, because they can see Clint Eastwood's film."

John Lennon

The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.

John Banville

I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.

Josh Klinghoffer

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band.

Judy Blume

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

Kurtis Blow

I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.

Karen Black

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

Juliette Lewis

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.

Julie Kagawa

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

Julie London

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

Justin Bieber

What do you get when you give a teenager $200 million? A bunch of has-beens calling you a lesbian for two hours...

Kami Garcia

Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.

Julie Smith

Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans.

Paul Davies

I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the sky at night and think am I alone in the universe? Well most people get over it, but I never did and though I made a career more in physics and cosmology than astrobiology I've always had a soft spot for the subject of life because it does seem so mysterious.

Patrick Dempsey

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

John Scott

People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.

Marilyn Hacker

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

Mary J. Blige

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.