Age Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Libel Middle Middle aged Middle ages Real Real things
Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction. — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others. It is not really about them though… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
