Teen Violence Quotes

#1. You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

David Mamet

#2. We need to take a harder look at what's really going on. Stop trying to treat the symptoms and treat the cause of the problem. Maybe we should try a little harder to help these kids before they feel so cornered that they turn into monsters.

Aaron B. Powell

#3. We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our lines were headed to the cafeteria or recess or the carpool line. Or it could've been a fire drill. Except for the stone-faced police officers weaving between us with rifles.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#4. If I'm looking really intense, it's not because I'm trying to be mystical. It's because I'm thinking '[Dagnabit], that was supposed to be a 7th chord'.

Ed Robertson

#5. Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

Colleen Hoover

#6. In movies, books & even music, to me, the true artist is the writer. Writers have to begin the creative process by making nothing into something before it can ever manifest into anything.

Chris Mentillo

#7. Now I know I am done. Now I know She is done.

~ Aarush Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#8. Don't worry that you've wasted time. Each moment
no matter how frozen or confused
was a useful and necessary lesson.

Martha Beck

#9. Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.

Jonathan Hennessey

#10. The ice cold fear I'd felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma - the gift that keeps on giving.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#11. Duplicity was not the sole province of the capital, Bas knew, but the honest inheritance of the entire species.

Daniel Polansky

#12. If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Roger Ebert

#13. The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

Manuel De Falla

#14. Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

Ari Graynor

#15. I was feeling very comfortable; the coffee had warmed me up, and through the open door came scents of flowers and breaths of cool night air.

Albert Camus

#16. I am only certain of one thing. If we are the sum total of our relationships, my balance sheet is bleeding red ink.

Cindy Cruciger

#17. I could've gone on and on but the truth was all that mattered.
My brother died because someone was jealous.

Laura Anderson Kurk