John Green Quotes Quotes & Sayings

These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous American poet:
'You Walt Whitman-ing, Edna St. Vincent Millay! Go Emily Dickinson your mom!'
'Thanks for the advice, you pathetic piece of E.E. Cummings, but I think I'm gonna pass.'
'You Robert Frost-ing Nikki Giovanni! Get a life, nerd. You're a virgin.'
'Hey bro, you need to go outside and get some fresh air into you. Or a girlfriend.'
I need to get a girlfriend into me? I think that shows a fundamental lack of comprehension about how babies are made. — John Green

If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane. — John Green

The problem with chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to the point where nothing is real. — John Green

forever is composed of nows — John Green

I've always sort of preferred people who are not entirely likable. — John Green

I'd been in the dark so long I was still craving it. — John Green

In the year 3,000,002,012 the Andromeda Galaxy may collide with our Milky Way. At first this sounds miserable, like a collision of two bird flocks. But galaxy members fly farly, not tip to tip. In a galactic collision the stars do not actually collide - as with crisscrossing marching bands, only the interstices collide. (Oh to be like a galaxy, to mingle without wrecking. But then we would have to be composed of so much more sky.) The spaces between stars are so wide that thousands of galaxies have to converge before the stars will crash. — Amy Leach

People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used. — John Green

I'm convinced Apple has been doing the core/clock speed architecture right, while other OEMS are more caught up in this core count race that isn't really going anywhere. — Marques Brownlee

History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves. — George Leonard

Egolessness is contentment. — Rajneesh

You humans are so fragile. One minute you're fine, the next minute you're gone forever. — Susan Ee

If you don't do your dance, who will? — Gabrielle Roth

What did Dom Perignon say to fellow monks after he invented champagne? ... Come quickly, I am tasting the stars. — John Green

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop. — John Green

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. -Q — John Green

Perhaps okay will be our always. — John Green

I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor. — Pope Pius X

Later, Fang said to Ella and Dr. Martinez in that gushy, hyperemotional, overdramatic way he has. — James Patterson

You're so busy being you, you don't realise how unprecedented you are — John Green

I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear. — James Joyce

At times, quotes from the books talk more about our lives than on the lives of the characters. — John Green

But the snags were thick, the water was treacherous and shallow, the boiler seemed indeed to have a sulky devil in it, and thus neither that fireman nor I had any time to peer into our creepy thoughts. — Joseph Conrad

Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood. — John Green

We skipped stones across the creek, which sounds dumb but it wasn't. I don't know. Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seems to be in that light. — John Green