Badass is a juvenile aspiration.
My Lolita remarked: "You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own"; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions.
A clever enemy would kiss my hand, then stab at my back while I was distracted. (Stryker) A coward’s action. Truly. Don’t insult either one of us with such a suggestion. I don’t believe in petty juvenile attacks. I go after what I want, and when it’s the life of an enemy I don’t want there to be any mistaking my intention. If you’re worth my hatred, then you’re worth my letting you know that I’m coming for you. (Zephyra)
Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.
If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.
John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.
If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer.
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development. . . the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.
Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were. . . distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to. . . juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear. . . Mother Goose rhymes.
I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying to make it work the same way I did with my juvenile mind - that is, to imagine how we are suffering. To record it being actual and then virtual.
My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.
In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me.
I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I’ve never forgotten it.
In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.
The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.
At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
