A.Z.Green Quotes

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

I've always felt like I'm from another planet.

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

I didn't know about the Bond girl thing. I was approached very quickly, boom, boom, boom, it happened.

People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.

Everything that comes together falls apart.

The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

It seems no matter what I read I think 'this is not Harry Potter.'

Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

Being pro-life doesn't save babies, acting pro-life does.

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

Every library is an arsenal.

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

I hate hateful people.

Babies are saved when Christians show up.

Focusing on one thing without interruption is how you get meaningful work done.

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.

Everyone knows that senior citizens are stupid

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.

She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

Be free and express yourself. Do what comes naturally.

He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.

You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.