Quote

If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.

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
Better
Degrees
Things
Hero
World
Journey
Stars
Rather
Restructure
Show
Astrophysics
Shows
Degree
Reality
Star

More quotes by John Green

Image
Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.
John Green
Image
Nerdighters make me believe in America again.
John Green
Image
If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.
John Green
Image
And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
John Green
Image
This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.
John Green
Image
He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?
John Green
Image
You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.
John Green
Image
People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.
John Green
Image
...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.
John Green
Image
He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her
John Green
Image
I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined.
John Green
Image
She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.
John Green
Image
And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.
John Green
Image
Language buries, but does not resurrect.
John Green
Image
My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.
John Green
Image
Bro, it's dark. You can't go to a strange building with a mysterious address in the dark. Haven't you ever seen a horror movie?
John Green
Image
We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth
John Green
Image
Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
John Green
Image
I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.
John Green
Image
Entropy increases. Things fall apart.
John Green