All Quotes

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.
‐‐ Jane Goldman

Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
‐‐ Sam Phillips

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.
‐‐ Jerry Leiber

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
‐‐ Antonya Nelson

Teenagers have a natural curiosity and are keen to clock up experiences. What they need to be wary of is that some experiences may erode their sense of self and lead to a fragmentation of morals.
‐‐ Alexandra Adornetto

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.
‐‐ John Green

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.
‐‐ Jennifer Lawrence

Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.
‐‐ Sherry Turkle

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
‐‐ John Knowles

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?
‐‐ Andrew Shue

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.
‐‐ Ethan Zuckerman

Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.
‐‐ Maggie Stiefvater

Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them.
‐‐ Matt Haig

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.
‐‐ Fred G. Gosman

Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.
‐‐ Sherry Turkle

Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us.
‐‐ Mary E. Pearson

Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.
‐‐ Jared Leto

Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!
‐‐ Mila Kunis

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.
‐‐ Matthew Tobin Anderson

Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.
‐‐ Mary E. Pearson

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

Teens aren't just interested in getting laid. I won't believe that's all they're interested in. I have four younger sisters and they're sick of being shown how they're supposed to react in bed.
‐‐ Linda Fiorentino

Teens find out a lot from other teens.
‐‐ Ally Condie

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.
‐‐ Jay Asher

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.
‐‐ Kim Harrison

Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.
‐‐ Nancy Lublin

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant

Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is quite good at preserving the DNA, so it is a bit of time capsule so to speak.
‐‐ Hendrik Poinar

Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.
‐‐ Michael T. Flynn

Tel Aviv appeals to me.
‐‐ Taylor Caldwell

Tel Aviv is buzzing with so much life, you could bottle it and sell it as honey, and even Jerusalem has a certain fizz. But if you want to see anger, go to Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem on a Friday afternoon.
‐‐ Clive Sinclair

Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Tel Aviv is the most exciting place to eat in Israel.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Telco is totally committed to commercial vehicles, where it is bound to remain a major player. What may well happen in the future is we may split the company into two business units.
‐‐ Ratan Tata

Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.
‐‐ John W. Snow

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
‐‐ Charles Babbage

Telemarketers tell me I sound like Bill Cosby.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Telephone operators have called me 'sir' since I was 6.
‐‐ Suzanne Pleshette

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.
‐‐ Mike Fitzpatrick

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the steps we have taken, which extend the tenure of our exclusive access to Televisa's premium Spanish-language telenovelas, sports, sitcoms, reality series, news programs and feature films, put Univision in a stronger competitive position.
‐‐ Randy Falco

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.
‐‐ Ernie Kovacs

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
‐‐ Harry Morgan

Television allows for survival, which is the basic issue for me. You have to decide how much money is enough. You can't get carried away with the hunt for money. But there are times it shows up, and you need to grab it, and that allows you to hunt for a better script.
‐‐ Jamey Sheridan

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.
‐‐ Christopher Eccleston

Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.
‐‐ Campbell Scott