Quotes of: Young-men Keyword

If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.

The Diary of a Young Girl

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

Don't Give It Away!: A Workbook of Self-Awareness and Self-Affirmations for Young Women

No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there.

Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life

One thing they do not teach you in college is what you will actually be doing in a career of your choosing.

Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

Green Mars

...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

It's quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I'll always be fond of you.

Bauhinia Junction

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Cong...

Birch Bayh

I've always been interested in exploring the concept of child prodigies. When I was younger, I wrote a story about Mozart as a child, and I just always loved this idea of young people who are able to take control of their lives and bring a whole lot ...

Marie Lu

My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.

Jacob Rothschild

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Advice to a Young Critic

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

Advice to Young Musicians

I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding.

Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People

To see how pretty an old woman once was, it is not enough just to look at each feature; they must be translated.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for uncertainty, can lead to a premature certainty.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers' Power

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.

The Luck of the Bodkins

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.

Letters to a Young Conservative

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

Letters to a Young Contrarian