J R Young Quotes

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.'

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

My motives at a young age were, "I want to be rich and famous".

Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of Apartheid everywhere around me.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

You just don't heal that easy unless you're young.

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

The one thing I worry about with that is whether or not we're edgy enough for the young kids. You know, does a 20-year-old like the fact that he can play it for his dad? Is that cool?

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry.

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.

I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at odds, because Rookie felt like the bridge.

If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.

When I was young I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger, for several years.

A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage.

Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.

I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.

Old is man when he is born and young, young ever after.

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

You can actually alter a person's perception when they're that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.

There was a time when the young of many clans joined together to make new clans.

The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead.

All young men want to prove themselves.

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young?