Joh Green Quotes & Sayings

Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function ... They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard ... you've never seen their shape, but you feel ... you suspect ... they correspond to ... an empty space inside you ... or in the universe ... — Marguerite Duras

Information upon points of practical politics. — Benjamin Disraeli

Keep on dreaming, you will get to your destination. — Lailah Gifty Akita

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons. — Major Taylor

We hear the same refrain all the time from people: I have no life. I get up in the morning, daycare, eldercare, a 40 minute commute to work. I have to work late. I get home at night, there's laundry, bills to pay, jam something into the microwave oven. I'm exhausted, I go to sleep, I wake up and the routine begins all over again. This is what life has become in America. — Gerald Celente

A good parent gives their child roots and wings. — Jonas Salk

The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all. — Seth Godin

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded. — Abraham Lincoln

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. — Albert Camus

The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan. — Ali Khamenei

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them! — Heather Matarazzo

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. — John Green

The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom. — John Maynard Keynes

They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product. — Tony Abbott

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. — Jane Smiley

I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners. — Hoda Kotb