Jon Krakauer Quotes

Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.

Jon Krakauer

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• The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

  

  Kate Klise
  • College
  • Surprise
  • Strive

• If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Done
  • Because
  • Cookie

• If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Situation

• I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Comedy
  • Feel
  • Starting

• Let me just make this point, John...We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Point
  • Elections
  • Campaigning

• I will not be a slave to my yesterday. I am creator, not a parrot.

  

  Vachel Lindsay

• Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Freedom
  • Education
  • Religious

• A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Remember
  • Peace

• Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Good
  • Country
  • Family

• I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young, you didn't have very many opportunities to find out with no web, TV. I was very lucky: I was born in the city of Chicago and went to the University of Chicago where I actually saw things.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Life
  • City
  • Chicago

• The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Betrayal

• Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Crazy
  • Promise
  • Girlfriend

• We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.

  

  David Crane
  • Stop

• I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four,' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.

  

  Alex Pettyfer
  • Different
  • Done
  • Pretty

• I was born with the confidence of an 89-year-old man. So it's strange when people ask, 'What's it like being a female comedian?' It never occurred to me that I'd be limited as a woman - that I couldn't be a scientist, a doctor, or anything I wanted.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • People
  • Confidence

• The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do.

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • Believe

• My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school close to my mother's studio, and for years, I went to the studio after school and just watched how she captured these beauties.

  

  Dario Argento
  • School
  • She
  • Remember

• They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.

  

  William Johnson Cory
  • Tears
  • News
  • Bitter

• I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

  

  David Friedman
  • Music
  • Independent

• I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Age
  • Small

• It's one-of-a-kind, because some people would die to have the family I do.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • People
  • Family
  • Die

• Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.

  

  Jon Krakauer
  • God
  • Discussion
  • Speaking