John Green Quotes

These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

The best way to die is sit under a tree, eat lots of bologna and salami, drink a case of beer, then blow up.

We didn't have steroids. If I wanted to get pumped up, I drank a case of beer.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

I drink no cider, but feast on Philadelphia beer.

John and I would go and have a couple of quiet beers, just to sit down and chew the fat. And he'd talk about Cynthia and how much he missed her

What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image.

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.

I am not a complete vegetarian. I eat only animals that have died in their sleep.

Let's all get married. There is nothing more beautiful than two people who love each other and commit to marriage

They were actually pills to make slimming easier for you. We used to take them with a couple of beers. They made you just a little speedy. But you can't compare it to speed from today or cocaine or anything. It's just baby food compared to that.

If you've got any concern at all about animal welfare, you've got to not eat meat.

When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

Vegetarian is the New Prius!

Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the tritest, silliest chart song, is a beautiful, perfect, mysterious thing, and when an ill-read, uneducated, uncultured, emotionally illiterate boor puts a couple of them together, he has every chance of creating something wonderful and powerful. All I ask of music is that is sounds good.

Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

I'm still the same person I've always been. I can't say exactly what I'll do; I'm an excessive person. Talk about violence-----I don't do anything violent. Talk about violence, what's going on in Nicaragua? What's going on in El Salvador? That's violent. What are they doing to the planet with chemicals and acid rain? That's violent. What are people doing to each other? Raping. That's violent. I'm striking out at ac icon that has no life. There's a big difference between what has life and what doesn't. I mean. I've been a vegetarian for 16 years.

I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

By eating meat we share responsibility for causing climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian can make a difference in the health of our planet.

The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.

Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get laid, come home at 3am., and I would still be playing with myself.

Well, a good ole boy is somebody that rides around in a pick-up truck - which I do - and drinks beer and puts 'em in a litter bag. A redneck's one that rides around in a truck and drinks beer and throws 'em out the window.

A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, Hey, y'all catch all them fish? Nope - Talked 'em into giving up. Here's your sign.