Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation. — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
I prefer children because they are honest. They don't want anything from you other than to have fun. Adults have let me… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“It was funny. The adults taking all this so seriously, and the children playing along, playing along, believing it too until suddenly… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes… — John Green Copy Share Image
As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the… — Stewart Dalzell Copy Share Image
As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
Adults use children in order to survive because now, we have this [kids] tissue that can allow us to live longer. And… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult… Many people are often wrong…… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off… — Ann Althouse Copy Share Image
In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults." "You can't make anyone be an adult.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult,… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
“And that's what's wrong with the world.." "Man, woman, straight, gay. There's nothing wrong with wanting someone. We're all adults.” — Lindsey Kelk Copy Share Image
Each country makes a different decision on adult pornography, but the good news is that even governments you hate, hate child pornography. — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult. — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
“DOSTIE: Let's be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they're like a new snowfall, you know?” — Hillary DePiano Copy Share Image
You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging. — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves. — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image