Jon Krakauer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
-
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
-
The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
-
I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
-
What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
-
Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
-
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
-
Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
-
Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.
-
I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.
-
I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
-
But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.
-
In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has been done on one subject, it has doubtless been done on others. A good many women, I think, learned a wholesome distrust of press reports during the suffrage struggle.
-
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
-
Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
-
I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
-
People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.
-
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.
-
The more we give to others, the more we are increased.
-
Everyone learns from their experiences.
-
Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.
-
The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
