Adolescent Brain Quotes

#1. My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning.

Emma Cline

#2. Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

Michael J. Fox

#3. How drugs patchworked simple, banal thoughts into phrases that seemed filled with importance. My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning. I wanted Russell to be a genius.

Emma Cline

#4. In fact, his adult brain acted like his adolescent brain used to. It stopped functioning. All it wanted to do was wrap itself around the owner of that scent and purr.

Shelly Laurenston

#5. You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

Marc Maron

#6. The teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

Becky Freeman

#7. I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine ... which is bullshit.

Gloria Steinem

#8. Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

J.K. Simmons

#9. You see, Rodya, to my thinking, the great thing for getting on in the world is always to keep to the seasons; if you don't insist on having asparagus in January, you keep your money in your purse!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. Without stories, reality would destroy us. She says stories and myths and heroes challenge us to be worthy of a larger reality. To listen to the better angels of our nature. To be more than what we are.

Abigail Strom

#11. My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It's a bit of a mess to watch!

Margot Robbie

#12. His dark brown eyes shifted to my covered arms. "You didn't do that-did you? It was done to you?"No one ever asked that question. They stared. They whispered. They laughed. But they never asked.

Katie McGarry

#13. The American worker is more productive than he's ever been. We've got more people to do it. We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future. It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. This is a super athlete.

Howard Warren Buffett

#14. The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations.

William Blake

#15. Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

Robert Redford