J. Green Quotes

Life's too short to wear high heels.

You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.

I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

Everybody's the same color with the lights off.

The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.

To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help people who feel they're being failed by the system.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.

I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.

I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.

I feel like I'm 1,000. I don't feel I'm young enough a lot of the time.

Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.

As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident.

I don't watch anything I'm in. Not even on set. I won't go over to the monitor to watch what we've just shot. It's too terrible. I think I'm just very self-conscious.

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums... You only notice the guitar when it's not there.

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

Night falls fast. Today is the past.

To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

All my jewelry has stories.

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.

How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.

Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.

I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled

I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.

She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.

It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.