Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing…sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.

Charles de Lint

I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.

Charles de Lint

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

Alanis Morissette

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

Alan Rickman

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

Alan Green

As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.

Dave Barry

Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava flows destroying entire villages, etc., and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.

David Talbot

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

Nile Rodgers

I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

Nick Park

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

Todd Lowe

Vampires are pretty frightening. Knowing they can 'glamor' you is pretty weird. And you shake hands or hug them and they're cold. I wouldn't like that.

Anne Robinson

If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.

Charli Turner

We have the mentality and we understand the expectations that have been set. Knowing you can do it and actually doing it are two different things, but for now, I know we can repeat from last year.

Deborah Lewis

We're lost, not knowing what the next day is going to bring.

John Cannon

We have no way of knowing that at this time.

Scott Anderson

We have no way of knowing if someone is a nominee officer or a regular officer.

Charles de Gaulle

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Damien Rice

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

Tom Verica

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

Nicole Appleton

I'm in the public eye. I know I'm not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.

Mitch Albom

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

Debra Pegram

We didn't press as much as we normally do. We wanted to look at some other things we can do out of a half-court offensive set.

Ron Nesper

We had some looks. We normally don't run something for a specific player and most of the time it wasn't necessary.

Mario Rodriguez

We're down to about 10 percent of our normal revenue.

Allison Williams

It's a normal thing for people to do, going on Facebook and seeing pictures of their exes with their new significant others.

Cathy Rigby

When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.