In using the terms play and playfulness, I do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; quite the contrary. Anyone who… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand... — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
As an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. I mean, I like a good thrill. Thrillers are my… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I remember Gale Gordon was in the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], and it was one of my very first professional… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
I felt a gravitational pull to the material so that there's a certain element of acting that's not really necessary. I've really… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to… — Jonathan Cainer Copy Share Image
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be… — James Fox Copy Share Image
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less,… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership. — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
There was recently a story out that I turned down a role in a major franchise. That's not true. I refused to… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
But when adults speak up for the vulnerable and the weak, working and demanding that safety and respect prevail, God's little lambs… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into… — Chandra Wilson Copy Share Image
For every little kid who still believes in Santa Claus, there is at least one adult who still believes in professional wrestling. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Once I sold my shares and figured I wanted to get out of the magazine business it was like, "Now I can… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and… — Haley Joel Osment Copy Share Image
Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise,… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
I accepted the forgiveness of God. I got off track as an adult and because I believe in God's grace, I believe… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image