John Quotes

As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

For loves lawe is out of reule.

But in proverbe I have herde say,That who that wel his werk beginneth,The rather a good end he winneth.

For who that noght dar undertake, Be riht he schal no profit take [For who that dare not undertake, By right he shall no profit take. i.e., Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]

What brands can do brilliantly is broker change in people's lives.

The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular.

If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear.

You notice. And noticing, you live.

Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you.

Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.

She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.

When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it

We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

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.

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

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

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.

To be human is to catch the falling person.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

What's the meaning of life? Other people.

Crying is you, plus tears

I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

standing in line is a form of oppression

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.

See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.

Think for one minute of those who have loved you up into this day.

I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

If you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.