S. E. Hinton Quotes

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

I was a total bad girl growing up.

I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that's for sure.

My friends were stealing cars and shoplifting. I was never into that but I was cheeky. I enjoyed making people laugh.

Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today.

I am what you call a hooligan-

I had a reputation in high school for making trouble.

I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.

Bad guys have more fun.

I was a troublemaking kid.

Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.

The bad boy: always more fun.

I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff. Does that make sense?

Growing up, I probably raised a bit more hell than I should have.

It's totally fun to play troublemakers - totally.

I was kind of a troublemaker, believe it or not.

I was a bad kid, getting into a lot of wild stuff.

I was a troublemaker.

Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.

I am so sick of you smart kids. Why can't you just boost cars or steal stuff like normal kids?' 'We do steal stuff. Just bigger stuff.

Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something.

Rock 'n roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Shiny, let's be bad guys!