Jon Krakauer Quotes

You can get a lawyer with two months off or a New York socialite who wants to play at being Lewis and Clark and put them up there, but Everest is still in charge; it can still kick butt.

Jon Krakauer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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New YorkLawyerYouPlayNewButt

When I was about 9 years old, man, I realized that the real thing was not only to do what you were doing totally great, but to look totally great while you were doing it.

Jim Carroll

GreatManDoingOld ManYouLook

Growing up, I went to the Warped Tour a lot, and I got to see bands like Rancid and AFI and Dropkick Murphys and these bands that meant so much to me when I was a kid - all in succession on these stages, so to get to play that same stage that I watched those bands play is a huge thing for me.

Andy Biersack

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Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'

Ann Romney

MarriageThinkYouLookI CanPlay

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

John Shelton Reed

IdentityGroupSenseEthnicLike

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then write longhand, into a notebook. I prefer paper and pen because it feels closer to my brain.

Tracy Chevalier

SonDaySchoolBrainWritingPen

No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.

Tommy Lee Jones

LiveTimePeopleThinkThinkingBig

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

Tom Hanks

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I would not really be a part of something that doesn't interest me.

Rithvik Dhanjani

MeInterestSomethingWouldPart

The optimum amount of sugar in a product became known as the 'bliss point.' Food inventors and scientists spend a huge amount of time formulating the perfect amount of sugar that will send us over the moon and send products flying off the shelves.

Michael Moss

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Architecture is politics.

Mitch Kapor

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Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

Loretta Young

GoodAttitudeDressMannersMatter

If we are going to win the next war, in my opinion, 50 percent of the time of training should be allotted to night training.

Chesty Puller

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