J R Young Quotes

I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.

We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

I can't remember what Michael Praed looks like. I'm too young!

I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

When I was young, I was religious.

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.

When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.

My dream role is to play in a story of how the Joker became the Joker, and I would play the young Heath Ledger.

It's good to see a kid that young learning how to pitch. He's tough.

When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.

Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.

Even when I was really young, I hated doing commercials, because I would say, "That's not real acting." And it's not. It's embarrassing what they make little kids do in commercials.

There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future.

Young widows still bide their time.

I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.

Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means its going to be harder for young talent to get discovered.

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet.

I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.

I feel bad for young people. The 20s are a nightmare also. The 20s are hard to do.

Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.

It seems like magic is something kids start really young.

Santa Jr. I was a cop. Yes, I was officially Santa. But a younger Santa. He goes young, clean-shaven, to how we imagine Santa with all the white hair and beard and "Ho ho ho." Kind of funny.

[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less.

I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

I'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.

I hope my next movie is with like 80 year olds because I want to feel young again.

That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents who are not paying attention to them.

There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.

I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

Young African - millennials really love Barack Obama.

You have a lot of young people who still feel somewhat marginalized, even if they do vote for Hillary Clinton.

I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.

Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today.

I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me so much. I doubt I would be where I am today without that amazing experience.