I'd say I'm drawn to characters that ring true to me. Adolescence is a troubled time for everyone, so a lot of… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
“Being an adult isn't an excuse to do whatever you want. Being an adult is the duty of having no one else… — Keri Sparks Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is an earthquake, one that feels like it will never end while you're living it, and eventually there comes a choice.… — Daniel Barnett Copy Share Image
In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Looking back at that now I shudder at my naivety: while 'Men Behaving Badly' remains a brilliant sitcom, how did I ever… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless,… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
“If you happen to be white in a white country; pretty according to the dictates of fashion; rich in a country where… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“Egalitarian and relativistic sentiments find steady support among ever new generations of adolescents. Owing to their still incomplete mental development, juveniles, especially… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
I made a film about adolescence and what going through it is like for a specific group of girls. Adolescence is always… — Linda Goldstein Knowlton Copy Share Image
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I was in therapy for six years and then stopped. You get hardwired at adolescence, like a caterpillar that pupates and re-assembles… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . .… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know,… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“He was fiercely beautiful in the way some young males are, as if their whole being were being lived through their eyes,… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
“All I know is that growing up hurts too much. Growing down is what I'd really like to do. Be little enough… — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
“What was he? A mere human, stuck between the rungs of blended adolescence and nascent adulthood. What power did he command over… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
