Jon Krakauer Quotes

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

Jon Krakauer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 12, 1954

Topics

HappinessPurposeMeMeaningWant

It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.

Jimmy Carr

GreatPeopleLaughGroupMoreRoom

I'm not an actor.

Jenna Marbles

Actor

Everybody's a train wreck in their own very special way. But there's something wildly freeing about someone who's unapologetic, who knows they're a wreck and doesn't even try to hide it, just bulldozes through life.

Melissa McCarthy

LifeSomeoneHideTrainWayTry

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

Amanda Burton

PeopleThinkDuckYouTelevision

You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains.

Stephen Graham Jones

YouEatBrainsUsOnlyZombie

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

LifeExperienceBackwardsLivedMust

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

Tony Blair

TodayI AmFeelCountryEveryone

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Mike Tyson

StrengthLongWantEndureAnything

You get a lot of respect for 'Game of Thrones,' and it was a lot of fun to play, but it didn't help my career a lot because Khal Drago doesn't even speak English.

Jason Momoa

RespectFunGameSpeakHelpYou

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

Josh Groban

HelpGoOutFreakGetTerrible

I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect.

Jaron Lanier

TechnologyColdFeelDoneWay

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

Drew Bledsoe

CoolFruitNightYouWantHot

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