A Quote by John Green

I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.

John Green

Quote Topics

Distance Just Noticing Pleasure Safe Things Want

Quote Author

John Green
American - Author
Born: August 24, 1977

sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful

Tao Lin

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

George Will

I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance.

Terry Pratchett

If you are noticing what you appreciate and noticing what you are grateful for, you can't be noticing what you don't like.

Michael Losier

I see so many people living in a bubble. They want to be safe, they want their kids to be safe, and they want their friends to be safe. And I get that. That's awesome and really admirable. But life is not about who gets out the cleanest at the end, or who's the most well-preserved and healthiest.

Frankie Ballard

Business people want things to be safe but that's rubbish to me. In music nothing should be safe.

Lisa Stansfield

Billy wanted me to stay a safe distance from the most important person in my life. It turned out that his concern was, in the end, unnecessary. I was all too safe now.

Stephenie Meyer

I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.

Elia Suleiman

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Ira Glass

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Ira Glass

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

Maria Mitchell

Not everything," he said. "Not the important things. My kids are safe. You're safe. That's all I really care about. This" - he said motioning - "is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time.

Nicholas Sparks

When I write, my goal is to delve deeply enough into the human experience to find a sort of universality. Once you dig down underneath surface differences, we are all human beings. And all human beings want essentially the same things at our core. We want to love and be loved. We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.

Ann M. Martin

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

William Faulkner

A Quote by John Green

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors