J.M. Green Quotes

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

Love is keeping the promise anyway.

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always.

This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in.

If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.

The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on.

There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work.

The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.

I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.

In a Tim Burton movie, you know it's going to be something unusual, or a bit mad. Something "other."

Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

The Venn Diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.