Hank Green Quotes & Sayings

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

So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants. — Hank Green

Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category. — Hank Green

I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me. — Hank Green

Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make. — Hank Green

I know that that doesn't make even a little bit of sense. That was the point, that beautiful incongruence. — Hank Green

There were sirens and the cops were there and they took me to the police station and I got arrested, it was really embarrassing. They actually just- they impeached me over the whole thing, they tried, well, they did impeach me, but I didn't have to actually stop being president, so it was okay. The police weren't actually that involved, it was mostly Congress. — Hank Green

Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway. — Hank Green

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing. — Hank Green

It seems no matter what I read I think this is not harry potter. — Hank Green

You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That's because I'm a dork. And I'm gonna choose not to explain myself. — Hank Green

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? — Hank Green

Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly — Hank Green

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. — Hank Green

It turns out, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about. — Hank Green

We are the superhero, none of us individually, but all of us together. — Hank Green

But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do. — Hank Green

Don't worry about looking cool. Do you because you are awesome. — Hank Green

Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved. — Hank Green

I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft. — Hank Green

Next time you have a bad day, remember that it is amazing that you are alive at all, much less a member of a self-aware species living at the height of human technological progress. — Hank Green

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though. — Hank Green

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. — Hank Green

The infernal day star is shining its radiation down upon us. I can feel it giving me cancer. — Hank Green

Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion. — Hank Green

It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge. — Hank Green

Solve more problems than you create. — Hank Green

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that. — Hank Green

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

You sense and feel something different than I do, even if we lick the same kitten. — Hank Green

At LeakyCon, a young lady asked me how I dealt with bullying. I wasn't able to give her a very good answer, which troubles me. Well, there were lots of shouts of "It gets better" and "Stay strong" and "We love you". But when I put myself back in time to when I was being bullied, none of those things would've helped me. Yes, absolutely it does get better. But when you are being physically and psychologically tortured, it is difficult to remove yourself from the pressingness of the moment at hand. Here's how I dealt with bullying: I cried, I hated myself, I hated my life. I didn't deal with it, I survived it, but I never dealt with it. So here are two tips from someone with lots of experience. 1: It's not about you, it has nothing to do with you, it's about the assholes doing it to you. 2: Your job is not to deal with it, your job is to survive it, which you CAN do because it WILL end. And then yes, it will get better. — Hank Green

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

Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other — Hank Green

I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity. — Hank Green

You are always a little bit wrong — Hank Green

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

I need Harry Potter like a grindylow needs water. — Hank Green

We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic. — Hank Green

I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum. — Hank Green

We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines — Hank Green

We need more completely sane people doing completely crazy things. — Hank Green

You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don't exist. — Hank Green

So the president is like, "Well, once upon a time it was Congress's job to decide whether or not we attacked countries, so let's let them decide." Which is funny, because, as we all know, if Congress were on fire, Congress could not pass the "Pour Water on Congress Act". — Hank Green

We are all bat people. — Hank Green

...the world is complicated and it deserves to be understood complexly. — Hank Green