Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.
Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.
I read 'Pushing the Limit' and 'Dare You To' by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I had never read young adult before, but now I'm a believer.
The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the trials and tribulations that lie ahead of them.
Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.
Housing programs designed to help young families and senior citizens purchase homes should be available to people of all races, including African Americans.
The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa.
It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.
I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults.
When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
I do think I learned to accept myself through the eyes of others when I was young because I wasn't brought up to think that I was beautiful or told I was beautiful.
When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.
There are countless reasons for reading, but when you’re young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages of a book.
