Such movies are always a danger...falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced...The theme is universal and encourages...unhealthy comparisons...why can't… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of… — Norman Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, the minute you start having sex, you can totally see the difference in the writing. You become an adult… — Nick Jonas Copy Share Image
I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“There were things that adults needed to know (that they might pick up in a classroom): how to take notes, how to… — Alicia Kazsuk Copy Share Image
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Many more children observe attitudes, values and ways different from or in conflict with those of their families, social networks,and institutions. Yet… — James P. Comer Copy Share Image
You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death,… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you… — Nancy Kerrigan Copy Share Image
I think people discredit teenagers and how wise they can be. Sometimes I meet teenagers who are much wiser than many adults… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Growing up, there were a lot of funerals that I attended, and the adults at the funerals went out of their way… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and,… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
The marriage rate has hit an all-time low, with 1 in 5 adults over 25 having never been married. In fact, an… — Jimmy Little Copy Share Image
No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every day of my adult life, I have worn at least one piece of jewelry from my maternal grandmother's collection, all of… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't… — David Alan Harvey Copy Share Image
Look, there’s no such thing as the master division to me. I’m going to compete as an adult until I realize I… — Roger Gracie Copy Share Image
Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
I signed my deal when I was 11, and the success I had, no one could explain that to an adult, what's… — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I was at the breakfast table this morning and I read in the newspaper that more and more adults are living at… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
