J R Young Quotes

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again.

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

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!

My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life

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

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

The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.

Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

When you are young "money" is not the same.

He's a nice young lad. I'll keep putting him on ... as long as he doesn't tell me any lies. He's back focused and it's great to see. Let's hope he keeps going on from that.

I'm not a rookie anymore-no more excuses about being young.

Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.

Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others. It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.