J. Green Quotes

I also live in the present, due to the constraints of the space-time continuum.

Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.

I have very little patience for teachers who teach their students things that are wrong.

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.

All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.

All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts.

You never know how bad a situation is going to be until you come out of it. But the nation has had two major hurricanes in [several] weeks, and we will be stronger because of it.

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.

We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.

Back in the days when I was growing up, the SWAC had as good of talent as any schools in the state.

Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City.

Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

I think relationships are very difficult. It's very easy to get swept away with excitement, glamour, and passion. I think the trick is to look for friendship rather than passion.

Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.

It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before.

And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life.

Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.

sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh.

The worse the haircut, the better the man.

God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.

She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.

Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are... People are different when you can smell them and see them up close.

Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.

The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.

One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.

I'm interested in Internet cultures. I'm interested in what the teenagers who drive the Internet culture are passionate about. I follow their lead - they go to tumblr, I go to tumblr.

It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering

All salvation is temporary

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water

I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?

Eternity bids thee to forget.

...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.