love poems and quotes for teenagers

I read the book and thought, How do you make a movie out of this? It seemed kind of like The Graduate, a seminal coming of age for people who are coming of age in their 30s instead of their late teens or early 20s. In our society, kids are much more sophisticated at an earlier age and much less emotionally capable at a later age. Those two things are sort of moving against each other. ~David Fincher, director of Fight Club, interview with Gavin Smith, "Inside Out," Film Comment, Sep/Oct 1999



No nation is fit to set in judgment upon any other nation. ~Woodrow Wilson



Why do men chase women they have no intention of marrying? The same urge that makes dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving. ~Author Unknown



Catching a yellow-jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary. ~Author Unknown



Oh golly gee, damn! ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. ~W.N. Rieger



I could walk forever and a mile with one beautiful girl. ~A.C. Van Cherub



Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. ~Fay Weldon



We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude. ~Helen Hayes



On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park. ~Curtis McDougall



A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. ~Thomas Jefferson



The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ~Joseph Conrad



Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ~Harold Coffin



Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ~Philip K. Dick



There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. ~Marie de Rabutin-Chantal



One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste, or a trial run for the jugular. ~Helen Thomson



Caring is the essence of nursing. ~Jean Watson



If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. ~Joey Adams



Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. ~Alphonse Allais