Jeff Kinney Quotes

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

Jeff Kinney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1971

Topics

FunnyWorldThinkBetterDownPlace

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

Slash

ThinkDoingMusicallyWhateverSolo

We never know what the Street is going to do with the funky trading.

Steve Wynn

KnowStreetNeverGoingFunky

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Roy Hattersley

MoralityMoreThanAllowExpediency

The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s.

Martin Rees

BestImpactMagicPhysicsBack

Playing tennis, I didn't tie in my self-worth into winning or losing matches.

Martina Navratilova

LosingWinningSelf-WorthTennisTie

I think working with the primal elements of fire and earth appealed greatly to my father because of the almost magical results.

Claude Picasso

FatherFireThinkResultsEarth

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

Branford Marsalis

MusicTimePeopleToughKnowMore

'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

Bronson Pinchot

DayYouHouseStopWayFalling

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

William Makepeace Thackeray

ManNeverComingPitySensesKnew

Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

William Morris Hunt

LifeArtLightPerfectionShadow

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

Phylicia Rashad

MotherMistakeThinkYouHumanShe

To be a nutritionist in France, you must be a doctor, seven years studies, and then three more years in nutrition.

Pierre Dukan

DoctorYouThreeMoreNutrition

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