A Quote by John Green

I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.

John Green

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John Green
American - Author
Born: August 24, 1977

Rain never understands why people hide under their umbrellas! Let us make a surprise to the rain by closing our umbrellas!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.

Erin Morgenstern

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

W. Somerset Maugham

A stand-up act is almost like a pool. You know what I mean? It's like a pool, and you're always skimming little leaves out of it, messing with the chlorine level, putting up umbrellas. You're trying to make one little stagnant body of water perfect. Whereas a late-night show is like a river, always moving forward.

Pete Holmes

I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.

Cassandra Clare

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.

Elizabeth McCracken

I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences.

Catherine Deneuve

I like a real beach. A crowded one, you know? People, towels, umbrellas. I hate those little private strips of sand you see up in Malibu.

Jimmy Kimmel

Too often, bridal shows are boring - I love including a small, unexpected element to make it interesting, like the removable skirts and umbrellas in seasons past.

Reem Acra

I was looking at these actresses sort of sitting around under umbrellas, people bringing them cold drinks and I was like, 'That looks so much easier than what I'm doing' and I was so wrong.

Katie McGrath

There were many times eating ramen noodles and sitting on a friend's couch watching ESPN where I was like, 'This is not what I thought California was going to be like. I thought it was going to be pools and cocktails with umbrellas in them and Maseratis, but this ain't it.'

Ted Raimi

I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'

Damien Chazelle

Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.

Stephanie Perkins

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.