#green

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. ↗

— J. Milton Hayes

#eye #five #god #green #had

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#allowed #cues #deal #game #golf

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels. ↗

— Jack Herer

#carbon #direct #direct result #effect #fossil

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#danger #days #front #green #green screen

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#blue #fields #green #ought #paints

I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story. ↗

— David Icke

#cliche #connotations #does #full #green

It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can be sort of blinding,' he said. 'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said. 'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?' 'You cannot.' 'It is my burden, this beautiful face.' 'Not to mention your body.' 'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #beauty

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#ch- #dreams

I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.) ↗

— John Green

#diagnosis #humor #john-green #humor

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary? ↗

— John Green

#tfios #the-fault-in-our-stars #intelligence