Jon Krakauer Quotes

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

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• I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Credit

• I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Why

• Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Fan
  • Matt Morrison
  • Lea Michele

• A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• I'm one of those pesky Brits.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Those
  • Brits

• No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Reality
  • Fall

• I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Write
  • Writer
  • Fiction

• In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Many
  • Did
  • Dictators

• This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

  

  Pat Boone
  • School
  • May
  • High

• The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Me
  • Best
  • Artist

• The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • World
  • Law
  • Community

• I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wife

• Lo! Death has reared himself a throneIn a strange city lying aloneFar down within the dim West,Where the good and the bad and the worst and the bestHave gone to their eternal rest.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Death

• We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Control
  • Addiction

• There are good days and there are bad days, and I've had my share of both.

  

  Charlie Bell
  • Good
  • Bad

• You just put your head down and do the work.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Work

• There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold
  • War
  • Peace

• When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.

  

  Andrew J. Feustel
  • Up
  • Space
  • Moon

• For a performer, passion is far more important than technical skills. If a dancer's leg isn't at a perfect angle, I can see past that, but if someone's dead in the face, it's really boring.

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Important
  • Past
  • Perfect

• Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for the ship to return to port.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Space
  • Waiting
  • Ocean

• If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Lost

• It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Time
  • Balance
  • Yourself

• Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

  

  Jon Krakauer
  • Past
  • Space
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