Adults Quotes
As an adult, the only people who care about horror movies are academics. No one loves to talk about horror films more than somebody with a Ph.D. in cultural studies at a university.
My mom would have killed me before, but I'm an adult woman now, and I'm ready to show the world that you can have it all at 40 - be fabulous, 40, and pose for Playboy.
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
When we’re young nothing offends us, except adults telling us what should. Then when we become adults, nothing offends us, except we are offended on behalf of our young.
Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.
There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults
Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.
It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.
I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.
I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.
I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me.
The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination.
I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers.
Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.
The drives you take for granted ("I'm a hetero/homosexual," "I'm attracted to children/adults," "I'm aggressive/not aggressive," and so on) depend on the intricate details of your neural machinery.
There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.
Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a responsible adult and pay the rent.
I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?
The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.
You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things.
Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults.
The difference between a child's toy and an adult toy is: location, location, location.
The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults
I think Anderson Cooper is an opinionated, hypocritical idiot who should be an adult and keep his opinion to himself.
It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and the world rocks along.
The 'militia' was the entire adult male citizenry, who were not simply allowed to keep their own arms, but affirmatively required to do so.
I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.
I love superheroes and I love weird horror films... I could definitely feel that there was a lack of movies like The Martian being made: smart genre movies that can appeal to adults.
Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering
It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.
I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.
Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.
I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but you don't want to have the responsibilities of an adult. You still want to have the freedom.
I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.
So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people.
When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.
I love doing kind of more kiddish-oriented movies, but I also love doing adult things. And I think it's fun to do a mix.