J. Green Quotes

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

I'm thankful for every moment.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.

I'm not into social media. I'm like from another century.

This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns

If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with?

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.

When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.

It hurts because it mattered.

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate

Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always

I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me.

The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.

Everybody knows I'm impatient. I don't have to apologize for it. I'm too old for that.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

I played a practice round with Hubert [Green] the other day, and when we got to the ninth green, I heard a fan say, "Why does Hubert have two caddies?"

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.

The chili I ate made for an explosive bathroom experience. I don't know how to put this delicately, but I missed the toilet entirely.

A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.

I'm not really keen on men wearing perfumes. It's just a bit wrong! I don't find it sexy. I prefer essential oils - patchouli is nice.

Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

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

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

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

It doesn't matter what you're saying if you come from an honest place.

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.

After working for 18 years, all of a sudden I became successful on a level where other people knew it. It's not a cat you can put back in the bag.

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

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.