Jon Krakauer Quotes

Everest is not real climbing. It's rich people climbing. It's a trophy on the wall, and they're done... When I say I wish I'd never gone, I really mean that.

Jon Krakauer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleRichWishWallDoneSay

There are so many of us that just do things to pay bills, but I never wanted that to be me.

Mehcad Brooks

MeNeverPayThingsUsBills

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

Stephen R. George

StorySellingAnythingIdeaOutline

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

Robert Vaughn

FearBeginningForceDominant

My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.

Miranda Cosgrove

ParentsFriendsSaidNeverRuleHad

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

MeTeachTakeMayOnlyThyself

If I were in a situation where I had to meet a pack of wolves and my family is with me, I'm going to be scared, but I'm not going to hide behind my son to protect me. They're going to hide behind me.

Jon Seda

FamilySonMeWolvesHideSituation

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

Derek Jacobi

CharacterGameInterestingPlanBeen

In 2010, I was the star of a sitcom. It came and went pretty fast. But in the months from when I was cast in the sitcom through when it was done airing, my life did change remarkably.

Chris Gethard

LifeChangeMy LifeFastDoneStar

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

Christian McKay

CareerLateActingUpTookPianist

The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.

Christopher Buckley

PoliticsAmericanWeekEternity

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Bryant H. McGill

EducationYourselfBe YourselfThink

Now that I know about my great-great-grandfather, I feel that John Reid and I would have got on well together.

Anne Reid

TogetherFeelKnowNowGotWell

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