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Quotes About Adult

If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.
~ Dov Davidoff
A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.
~ Rebecca West
Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent.
~ Daniel Tosh
The secret to happiness is a good sense of humor with adult content.
~ Abdul Ali II
The grim and gritty '90s thing is actually a teenage idea of what adult content is.
~ Jamie McKelvie
Overwhelming evidence in resiliency research indicates that a child's ability to endure and rise above painful childhood adversity depends on the presence of at least one caring, nurturing adult
~ Jane Middelton-Moz
Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is a good, old fashioned shaking.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child.
~ Albert Einstein
Let me tell you a joke, Rora said. Mujo and his wife, Fata, are in bed. It's late at night. Mujo is falling asleep, and Fata is watching porn: a horny couple, all silicone and tattoos, is sucking and fucking like there is no tomorrow. Mujo says, C'mon, Fata, turn that off, let's go to sleep. And Fata says, Let me just see if these kids are going to get married in the end.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work ten lifetimes to make up such a sum. Always supposing that it wasn't one of a kind. Panic was no longer merely rearing. It was thundering through her at full throttle. There was only one thing to be done, she realized. The mature, responsible, adult thing to do. Hide the evidence.
~ Alexandra Ivy
I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.
~ Cheryl Hines
To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
~ Ed Asner
I do like watches. I like the sophistication of it all. Like the whole thing behind collecting watches is very grown man-esque, so it makes me feel more an adult.
~ Austin Rivers
The '80s convergence of comics' new adult sensibility with the movies' advancing technology was bound to catch the attention of even slow-on-the-uptake Hollywood, and this particularly was true when 'Watchmen' and 'The Dark Knight Returns' became phenomena.
~ Steve Erickson
We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
~ Gordon W. Allport
All of the pivotal moments in my adult life are connected to the wrestling business.
~ Jim Ross
You know, I grew up watching all kinds of films. So, as an adult, I wanted to be involved in all kinds of plays and television and film.
~ David Schwimmer
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
~ Lauren Oliver
As an adult, I've learned to cope and pull the plug on the worst what-ifs before my mind takes me to a place from which I can't return.
~ Paul G. Tremblay
I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.
~ Jennifer Armentrout
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
~ Francis Spufford
Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows.
~ Paul Scheer
I watch the same cartoons over and over again. I watch Adult Swim. I watch 'Futurama' repeatedly.
~ Isaac Brock
You know what the first sites on the internet were about? Tech and porn.
~ Rian Hughes