John Green Quotes

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.

John Green

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 24, 1977

Topics

LoveTimeReadingYouConnection

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

Jewel

MeWorldInnocenceGoodnessLost

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

John Buchan

LeadershipGreatnessHumanityTask

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

EnjoyYouFameRankHolyYour

I don't have the attention span to practice sleight of hand.

Jeremy Sisto

PracticeAttentionHandSpan

Handwriting challenges aside, I love paper cards. I love the endless stewing involved in picking them out at the store. I love buying holiday stamps at the post office, and I love that 'whoosh' sound the cards make when I drop them into the mail slot.

Meghan Daum

LoveChallengesHolidayCardsOffice

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

Ann Richards

CommunityDepressionListeningBorn

It takes a lot more than just knowing how to put an outfit together to succeed in the fashion industry, so more power to you if this is where you want to be; just don't expect it to be an extended trip to the mall.

Sophia Amoruso

PowerTogetherSucceedFashionYou

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Joseph Campbell

PositivePainJoyFindPlaceBurn

You go to a couple of teams, and some guys have never been to a playoff game.

DeAngelo Williams

GameYouGoNeverBeenPlayoff

I have a lot of respect for the musical theater plays.

Christina Milian

RespectMusical TheaterTheaterPlays

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.

Cindy Sherman

PersonTalkHorribleJewsEvenHe

I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.

Peggy Whitson

PeopleGrowing UpGrowingMoreUp

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by John Green