Top 100 Kinney's Quotes
#1. Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading.
Jon Scieszka
#2. Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s.
Slim Moon
#3. I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I think that when you've got four siblings sharing the same resources and a single kids' bathroom, it's going to get a little tense at times.
Jeff Kinney
#4. You'll win her with ya Irish charm and green eyes, so ya will. Now drink up ya coffee and stop whining like a baby. This girl's gonna have a fantastic night tomorrow. She's gonna worship da ground ya c**k drags on.
JoAnne Kenrick
#5. If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.
Jeff Kinney
#6. I don't know if this makes me a bad person or whatever, but it's hard for me to get interested in other people's vacations.
Jeff Kinney
#7. If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.
Jeff Kinney
#8. After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.
Carrie Brownstein
#9. See, that's the problem with putting too much stock in the old days. You remember all the GOOD stuff, but you forget about the time you got spanked by your best friend's mom.
Jeff Kinney
#10. I've learned to accept that I'm a children's writer, even if it's not what I set out to become. It's what I should have been all along, and I'll stay in this role as long as I'm a writer.
Jeff Kinney
#11. I think goodreads is the best place to look for books
Jeff Kinney
#12. When kids get stuck on one of our quests, we now have an app for that. It is so cool to know that now kids can use mobile technology to learn more about Poptropica's great adventures and solve its challenging quests.
Jeff Kinney
#13. I feel, as an adult, I'm very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. Maybe it's a case of arrested development, but I feel like it's easy to slip back into those shoes, and I feel like if we were all magically transported back to our middle school years, we'd all act like we did in middle school.
Jeff Kinney
#14. I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.
Taylor Kinney
#15. I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.
Jeff Kinney
#16. Lee leaned closer to her and swore he could smell fear coming off her in waves, the way a shark smells blood in the water
Pamela K. Kinney
#17. Walt was a dreamer, but one who pursued his goals with clarity and an almost ferocious intensity." JACK KINNEY DISNEY ANIMATOR
Pat Williams
#18. step step step no no no plop plop plop in i go
Jeff Kinney
#20. In the songs that I write, that's where I get to be really brave and outspoken.
Emily Kinney
#21. I think Diary of a Wimpy kidis sooooo good!!!!!!!
Jeff Kinney
#22. I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget
Jeff Kinney
#23. Holly is the fourth-prettiest girl in the class, but the top 3 all have boyfriends. So a lot of guys like me are doing everything they can to get in good with her.
Jeff Kinney
#24. I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.
Taylor Kinney
#25. We got famous off singing about a chicken.
Sean Kinney
#26. I started worrying that maybe you only get a certain number of prayers answered in you lifetime and I'm burning through mine too fast. I'd hate to find out later on that I used up all my chits, because I've been acting like I've got an unlimited supply.
Jeff Kinney
#27. Now there's a black market for toys at our school. Christopher Stangel brought in a bunch of Legos from home yesterday, and I hear a single brick will set you back fifty cents.
Jeff Kinney
#28. What's the point of having the biggest baddest werewolf as your body guard if you can't boss him around. Kinda takes the fun out of it if you ask me. (Charity)
DeAnna Kinney
#29. I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He's always brave, and he's perfect in a lot of ways.
Jeff Kinney
#30. You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.
Janet Weiss
#31. I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.
Jeff Kinney
#32. I probably should've thought about talking to Uncle Gary a lot earlier. He's been married something like four times already, so he's an EXPERT on relationships.
Jeff Kinney
#33. I remember once I had lunch with George W Bush, his father, and Condoleezza Rice. Then I went home to find my dog and my neighbour's dog fighting over a dead rabbit, and I had to separate them. I like that my home life keeps things real.
Jeff Kinney
#34. As an actor, some of my favorite things to work on are night exterior scenes. Any time that we're on location and shooting at night, it's just magic. I got to do that so many times working on 'Vampire Diaries' that it filled my hat.
Taylor Kinney
#35. Hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot
Jeff Kinney
#36. It's definitely one of those things when you decide to be an actor that it would be really cool to be in a Broadway show or a series regular on a hit show.
Emily Kinney
#37. You and your group of nerds fall into a pit and it's full of dynamite and you blow up. The End.
Jeff Kinney
#38. Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!
Jeff Kinney
#39. I'll tell you who has a lot of money, and that's Manny. I mean, that kid is RICH. A few weeks ago Mom and Dad told Manny they'd give him a quarter for every time he uses the potty without being asked. So now he carries around a gallon of water with him at all times.
Jeff Kinney
#40. I got to give mom credit for how she handled it.She didn't try to pry and get all the details. All she said was that I should try to do "the right thing" because it's our choices that make us who we are. I figure that's pretty decent advice. But I'm still not 100% sure what I'm going to do tomorrow.
Jeff Kinney
#41. When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.
Jeff Kinney
#42. I draft on the computer. I have a really giant screen that attaches to my laptop, and then I have a humongous digital drawing tablet called a Cintiq. It sits at all different angles, and it's so big that it would take two people to move it.
Jeff Kinney
#43. There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.
Sean Kinney
#44. You know, back in the old days adults were respected because of how wise they were, and people went to them to help settle disputes. Nowadays it's a whole different world, and half the time I wonder if grown-ups should really be in charge.
Jeff Kinney
#45. I look up to a strong woman; maybe that's why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic.
Taylor Kinney
#46. My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an average dad. It feels like I have this secret identity as an author, and it's still very surreal to me.
Jeff Kinney
#47. I've seen a lot of movies where a kid my age finds out he's got magical powers and then gets invited to go away to some special school. Well, if I've got an invitation coming, now would be the perfect time to get it
Jeff Kinney
#48. For the record, I think it should be illegal for a boy to have to fold his mother's underwear.
Jeff Kinney
#49. Iko, too, glanced back. Kinney was sneering contemptuously at Kai's hand on Iko's broken arm.
Marissa Meyer
#50. I feel like I should be going with her," said Kinney. Snarling, Iko stepped over the fallen guard and jabbed a finger at his chest. "I have known her a lot longer than you have, mister, and if there's one of us who should be going with her, it's me. Now open these doors." One
Marissa Meyer
#51. Because it's our choices that makes us who we are ...
Jeff Kinney
#52. I just hope someone doesn't start the Cheese Touch up again, because I don't need that kind of stress in my life any more.
Jeff Kinney
#53. Ya game is fine, but ya booze-eyes are a problem. Not like ya ta drink this much. I reckon ya banjo'd, so ya are.
JoAnne Kenrick
#54. Seriously, though, in this day and age I don't know why we're still cutting open frogs to see what's inside them.
If somebody tells me there's a heart and intestines inside a grog, I'm willing to take their word for it.
Jeff Kinney
#55. Because of acting I've gotten to travel and meet so many amazing people, and they inspire new songs.
Emily Kinney
#56. It's been six months, Alex. The Brian Kinney routine is cute, but it's not you. It never was.
Rachel West
#57. Whenever you go with the cheaper option, you end up regretting it
Jeff Kinney
#58. Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist?
Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you!
Jeff Kinney
#59. Merit badges are these little patches you get for learning how to do all sorts of manly stuff.
Jeff Kinney
#60. There is a sweetness to life that can only be tasted when our eyes are truly open to our purpose and calling. The taste becomes richer still when we surrender to it.
DeAnna Kinney
#61. Must've stepped in dog poop when I walked in the grass. And I knew EXACTLY where it happened, too. SQUISH I took my shoe off and went to the front of the room to tell Mrs. Pope about my situation. But I think Mrs. Pope thought I was trying to skip out on the pop quiz, because she gave me
Jeff Kinney
#62. Dear Aunt Loretta,
Thank you so much for the awesome pants!
How did you know I wanted that for Christmas?
I love the way the pants look on my legs!
All my friends will be so jealous that I have my very own pants.
Thank you for making this the best Christmas ever!
Sincerely, Greg
Jeff Kinney
#63. In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.
Jeff Kinney
#64. Yes, Kinney?" said Cinder. "The captain and his crew are requesting an audience." "Ha!" Thorne's voice carried from the corridor. "I told you I could get him to call me the captain.
Marissa Meyer
#65. I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of the narrative, then I try to fit them in.
Jeff Kinney
#66. hopefully Mr. Blakely won't be too mad when he sees his
Jeff Kinney
#67. I think it's important for me to keep my childhood friends so that later on someone can appreciate how far I've come.
Jeff Kinney
#69. It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up.
Jeff Kinney
#70. That made Dad pretty mad, so he said
"NO SON OF MINE IS A QUITTER!"
Which isn't really true at all. I'm a HUGE quitter, and so is Rodrick. And I think Manny is on his third of fourth preschool by now.
Jeff Kinney
#71. I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.
Jeff Kinney
#72. Yeah, I'll believe that the day you give up your lip balm."
I gasped. "Never. Without it my lips feel naked and alone." (Charity Rising)
DeAnna Kinney
#74. The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.
Sean Kinney
#75. I gravitated to Judy Blume early on. 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' was my favorite, with a realistic and relatable protagonist in Peter Hatcher. When I reached the fourth grade, I made the leap to science fiction and never looked back.
Jeff Kinney
#76. I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.
Jeff Kinney
#77. I'm not even the most influential person in my own house.
Jeff Kinney
#78. Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.
Jeff Kinney
#79. We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have imagined that we'd see a day when half a billion avatars inhabited Poptropica.
Jeff Kinney
#80. I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.
Taylor Kinney
#81. Acting is so much about waiting ... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about what you're feeling and then go out and perform them. It's a nice thing to have and not get bored.
Emily Kinney
#82. Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
Rachael Harris
#83. I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.
Jeff Kinney
#84. Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best people I know.
Jeff Kinney
#85. 'Dad' she huffs.
'Kinney Hale,' he refutes, "I banished ghosts from this house millenniums ago. They're all afraid of me.
Becca Ritchie
#86. I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the control or flair that was necessary to create something that didn't look childish.
Jeff Kinney
#87. It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place.
Jeff Kinney
#88. When she catches you," the guard snarled, "my queen will eat your heart with salt and pepper." "Well," said Cinder, unconcerned, "my heart is half synthetic, so it'll probably give her indigestion." Kinney looked almost amused.
Marissa Meyer
#89. I would rather do a project that I've invested so much time to, rather than try to get a part on another show.
Emily Kinney
#90. The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.
Jeff Kinney
#91. To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!
Taylor Kinney
#92. The next Led Zeppelin is playing somewhere, and they'll likely never make it because there's no infrastructure for it. They'll never get a chance.
Sean Kinney
#93. Women love firefighters so much because it's like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.
Taylor Kinney
#94. I work in the house next to where I live. We bought a smaller house that I use as my office and the place where my two employees work ... We've got tens of thousands of letters from kids stored all over the house in places you would usually put dishes and other things like that.
Jeff Kinney
#95. I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.
Jeff Kinney
#96. I've realized is that every time you get something cool for your birthday or for Christmas, within a week it's being used against you. (We'll be taking this away until your English grade improves)
Jeff Kinney
#97. I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.
Jeff Kinney
#98. And if you don't spend every second outdoors, people think there's someting wrong with you.
Jeff Kinney
#99. I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.
Jeff Kinney
#100. Relax, Amy, I'm not gay. I just like Sleater-Kinney. It's possible to like them and be heterosexual. It's not like I invited you to go see Tegan and Sara.
Emily Gould
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