Quote

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

John Green

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
Author
Businessperson
Critic
Editor
Film Producer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Podcaster
Singer
Indianapolis
Indiana
John Michael Green
Known
Massive
Truth
Vast
Human
Math
Humans
Neither
Like
Majority
Processor
People
Imagine
Processors
Brain
Organ
Literature
Organs

More quotes by John Green

Image
It's not fair, I said. It's just so goddamned unfair. The world, he said, is not a wishgranting factory.
John Green
Image
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.
John Green
Image
The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.
John Green
Image
If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?
John Green
Image
Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.
John Green
Image
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.
John Green
Image
No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.
John Green
Image
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.
John Green
Image
Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.
John Green
Image
I'm not sure if I'm depressed. I mean, I'm not exactly sad. But I'm not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day, But sometimes when I'm alone at night I forget how to feel.
John Green
Image
But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral...or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you.
John Green
Image
A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.
John Green
Image
We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.
John Green
Image
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
John Green
Image
The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.
John Green
Image
But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
John Green
Image
Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.
John Green
Image
It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it you just think you do.
John Green
Image
I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.
John Green
Image
How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.
John Green