J.M. Green Quotes

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

You can't just make me different, and then leave. Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was just fine with me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

You were clearly not doing your part in the clover search, perv.

Why is it called Piggie-back riding? I'm not a piggie!

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

Don't worry about how things are. Watch where they are headed.

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it.

If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.

Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London.

Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

The not knowing would not keep me from caring.

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart.

I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me.

Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.

Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.

Teenagers think they are invincible

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

I don't want to be a Hollywood star. I just want to do my job and enjoy it. My aim is to find my true identity and to remain true to myself.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

To be human is to catch the falling person.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

Trees're always a relief, after people.