Ned Vizzini Quotes

Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

I'm a little girl; no one wants to beat up on me.

Hope is a dream deferred.

There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.

I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there.

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.

I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

I have no power, no independence.

Why not dream? It keeps you young. The only difference between me and a child is 65 years.

I guess when we're young, we all have that fascination with flying.