I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers.
To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote
If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.
Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal.
There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital relationships and occupational stress. The reality is that the social causes of mental ill-health are all around us.
Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.
I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.
My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing of a few adult pedants is nothing compared to the wrath of several million bookish 10-year-olds. Their presumed demands, and the hovering spirit of Harry's creator, J. K. Rowling, inhibit this movie as it did the first Potter film.
I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek. '
I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.
In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.
His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he wouldn't go away after I'd finished the short story. I couldn't figure out what he wanted, so I wrote to find out.
I never go easy on kids when I play board games. The sooner they learn what the consequence of entering a competition is, the better. If they win, I punch them in the face like any adult.