A.Z.Green Quotes

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday; second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow; third, enjoy today.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

You shouldn't go to college unless God has definitely called you to go.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.

Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly

Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

The blues - it's kind of like a religion, really.

But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.

Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty.

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

‎Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me.

Al Gore won the popular vote and didn't get elected president, so I'm not going to sit here and kill myself over not winning Defensive Player of the Year.

The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.

You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.

Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention.

Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home.

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.