J R Young Quotes

I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go.

I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun.

I'm a big fan of the game. Seeing these young guys play at the level that they are, I just wish I was 22, 23 years old so I can handle the game the way they do.

So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.

Too young,too young,she chanted to herself. Wrong,of course. I was older than her grandfather but according to my driver's license,she was right.

Of course the headspace for the young musician is whatever the guy who is paying you says, is right, but that's all.

When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You develop your own thing, and get excited about your band name. It's all so harmless.

Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young." - Cara

Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.

For a young cartoonist, they have to get going on the web, because that's where everybody goes for their information. And it really works.

You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think it's general British-press hype.

The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

Any young person who comes to see me, I say, 'Look, forget about print. You gotta think in terms of getting going with websites and online and that sort of thing.'

I've always played different kinds of roles, and I probably played more vulnerable parts when I was really young.

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.

I tell a lot of young performers, 'Go get in trouble. Go commit yourself to something you're not sure you can do.' And I followed my own advice.

Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.

Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.

My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its own answer to that question.

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

When you’re young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.

I was young and fearless in those days, but always enjoyed riding at Cartmel. They used to call me 'Cartmellor', probably because I kept coming back on a stretcher.

When I was wrestling, I was 19, I was young.

It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.

I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.

American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.

I'd always had a crush on Teri Garr - and still do. I've always adored her. I mean, who doesn't think about Teri in Young Frankenstein? I mean, come on! It makes you talk in that accent for weeks.

I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.

I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.

When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.

I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.

Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

The one thing that always sticks out to me was how reading to young people - even if they're not that young, even if they're too cool for school, middle schoolers - what a profound act of love it is.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

I remember being really young and having this voice inside that told me to trust my gut. And my gut has been really, really strong in my life. It's pretty vocal and it leads me.

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

To be in the dance bar you have to be young, good looking, able to dance, and comfortable talking to people.

O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of love.

When you marry young, you run the risk that you'll grow in different directions.