J R Young Quotes

I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.

I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a problem.

Youth is just wasted on young people.

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

That was a foul, young lady. You know that was a foul. Don't ask dumb questions.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

It's no secret that our nation's public universities want to transform American young people into a bunch of hyper-sensitive, intellectually-neutered cream puffs.

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

Youth is a predominant factor. We are seeing a young King Arthur, and thereby a young-ish - as I'm into my 40s - Merlin. It was about how to tackle it, from that point view.

Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.

The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

Is global warming new? I don't know. When I was young I remember the sun being hot.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

As a female filmmaker it's important to have a voice for and about women. We have a lot of valuable stories to tell and young girls need to hear them.

Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.

I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist notion of buying and selling.

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.

Mama always told me, be careful what you do, don't go around breaking young girls hearts.

Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you.

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

I am young. I better show off what I have now.

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.

We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.

After almost two hours of creeping around the forest, one of the jacks discovered Belen. He had fallen asleep, and the young man had literally tripped over him. So much for his reputation.

Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

I would prefer to tell a young player what to do than how to do it.

There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

From the time I was 16 and I had my own checking account, you'd think most young women would run out and buy clothes. No, I ran out and got myself a psychiatrist!

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

One good thing about being young is that you're not experienced enough to know what can't be done.

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.