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Idea Quotes by John Green
- They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.
- 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…
- Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.
- People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones…
- The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that…
- Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a…
- I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating…
- I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my…
- You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
- Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that…
- That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the…
- I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no…
- But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he…
- I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
- The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just…
- ..there she is, and I am watching her through plexiglass, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was…
- Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And…
- Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism…
- Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
- Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.
- You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call…
- He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals.…
- But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous.…
- I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books a supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating…
More Idea Quotes
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden