I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Coming-of-age stories are always appealing, especially as a young man who's still trying to figure out this complicated world. — Finn Cole Copy Share Image
When I was a young man, I worked at the Boys and Girls Club in St. Louis, Missouri, and another boys club… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
“I watched the young man as he articulated his ambition...A distant memory yet so familiar..” — Jose E. de Alvare Copy Share Image
The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any… — J. Ogden Armour Copy Share Image
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All of man’s work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
“For a young man has strong imagination but poor judgment, so that he imagines others to be as big as he is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I lived on the north side of Detroit. Right down the street from me there was a young man by the name… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
I'm gonna reveal something to you that's going to come as a shock: If you're a stupid young man, you're usually a… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
“Quantum physics speaks in chance, with the syntax of uncertainty. You can know the position of an electron but you cannot know… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The “non-profit” institution neither supplies goods or services nor controls. Its “product” is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What kind of things did you have in mind, kid?' Clyde said this with a smile that exposed a slight lewdness: the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
That's the age that people are exploited, exploitable, and they're easily manipulated. The problem with me is, you can't manipulate me anymore.… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“My second wife left me because she said I was too ambitious. She didn't realize that it is only the dying who… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Getting shot hurts. Still my fear was growing because no matter how hard I tried to breath it seemed I was getting… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“a young man without an income cannot be accepted as a fitting suitor for a gentleman’s daughter.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“I can see the young man on dizzily autumn mornings, the fog of which he inhaled just like the rapidly evaporating freedom.” — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
“Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
“My heart hurt for how much pain this young man must have had to live with over the years. To” — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
“In the poor man who knocks at my door, in my ailing mother, in the young man who seeks my advice, the… — Nelson Searcy Copy Share Image
He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four. — Dennis Price Copy Share Image
“it does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image