Adults Quotes - Page 31

I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.

In fact, writing for younger adults is tougher. They remember everything and if they spot a problem, they'll be sure to let you know.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.

I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that seems to be the modern Adult Contemporary market.

The Daredevil comic book was the first comic book Marvel had ever put out that was an adult R-rated book, so I started with that. When I was creating the series, I just started with that tone, and that edge, and it just kept going.

If I'm going to do something a little bit more adult, I'll do it if it's going to be on at a different time slot or if it's going to be something that kids won't be able to get their hands on

My head grew muddled with it all; the silly ways adults acted with one another, never saying what they meant, trusting in sighs and glances and distance to speak for them instead. How dangerous that was! How easy it must be to misinterpret a sigh or a look.

When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.

A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same!

I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the way is excellent. I will post about some of my favorites that should appeal to adult readers

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

There was recently a story out that I turned down a role in a major franchise. That's not true. I refused to audition for it. I didn't get the part. I didn't even go in because I thought that the part was just a repackaged version of the parts I played before in these young adult films - sort of moody, masculine, but sensitive and all this kind of thing. It was just a repackaged, rather dull thing.

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.

The best things in life don't come in adult sizes.

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

I feel like most horror films are made for teenagers about teenagers. I've done a couple of those horror films. There's nothing wrong with that but the older I get the more I starve for more adult material.

The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.

I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.

Adults under threat feel like children.

The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.