#teen

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. ↗

— John Cage

#boring #discovers #eight #eventually #four

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football. ↗

— John Cale

#i #instead #led #life #missed

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#adolescence #break #maturity #only #short

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#book #came #december #decline #first

I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust? ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#bank #bank account #care #figured #find

I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#always #amount #any #band #describe

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years. ↗

— Truman Capote

#eleven #honors #i #lovely #sixteen

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#going #hour #hours #how #last

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell. ↗

— Will Carleton

#fifteen #fifteen minutes #good #heaven #hell

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#barrels #could #covered #emerged #follow