#teen

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#dream #had #i #since #teenager

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs. ↗

— Paula Cole

#childhood #childhood memories #i #into #memories

He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#dystopian-fiction #love #teen-fiction #beauty

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#certain ways #different #i #teenager #than

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#bad #bad time #because #been #dad

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past. ↗

— Mel Torme

#arrangement #confess #dearth #fifteen #find

As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#become #connect #different #different people #i

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#age #appropriately #because #conservative #either

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#aristocracy #came #century #character #directed

I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#approval #board #congress #democrat #everybody