John Hughes Quotes

A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

Youth is wasted on the young.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

I'm 18 and I like it!

I was a geek in high school.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

I was the nerd. Because I was reading. I wasn't into sports. I was really into art. Very geekish about comics. Assumed gay.

The age thing is just a number.

There's a lot of closeted nerds out there.

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.

I'm a nerd.

I'm a nerd. But I'm not that hard-core.

It is strange to have everybody in the world still think of you as a child.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.

No one's serious at seventeen.

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

When you're younger, you're more selfish, because there's so much self-exploration, you're in your own mind.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.