Mean Teenagers Quotes

#1. I've always liked TV shows that have slightly unlikable leads, where you root for them in spite of a lot of things. I know it's not common with shows with young people; they have to be so likable. But, I mean, teenagers just generally aren't very likable. I know I wasn't as a teenager.

Bo Burnham

#2. You're a professor of astrophysics? And you want to be the ship's cook?" "Is the job in space?" "Yes." "Then I wish to be the ship's cook,

Anonymous

#3. Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

William Odom

#4. Juno MacGuff: Nah ... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

Diablo Cody

#5. I thank my mother (Ma, you're only second cause you got the dedication), who used to make me write essays whenever I got into trouble, explaining exactly what I'd done and why I'd done it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#6. Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.

Jerry Leiber

#7. And you didn't get children to trust you by gutting teenagers right in front of them, not even mean, ugly teenagers. That wasn't the way to make new friends.

Brom

#8. He traced the genealogy of the feeling.

Zadie Smith

#9. With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way.

Sara Shepard

#10. To stand still is to fall behind.

Mark Twain

#11. I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City of Bones came to me, I knew the main characters were teenagers. In my mind they were just very clearly the ages they were, which turned out to mean it was a YA novel.

Cassandra Clare

#12. But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?

Anne Lamott