Krakauer Books Quotes

#1. Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

Dean Karnazes

#2. Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it.

Rich Cohen

#3. Scary things only go on in our minds if we let them. Monsters don't live under beds; in our minds is where they truly reside. Remember that.

Kathryn Perez

#4. It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.

John Darnielle

#5. I couldn't write - or wouldn't write, at any rate - unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands

Armistead Maupin

#6. I am a freak in secondhand velour, a leper who uses L'Oreal Anti-sticky Mega Gel. I am rootless, ripped from all foundations, an orphan raising an orphan and wanting to take away everything there is and replace it with stuff I've made.

Dave Eggers

#7. I can't say I'm overwhelmed with surprise. I'm 88 years old and they can't give the Nobel to someone who's dead, so I think they were probably thinking they'd probably better give it to me now before I've popped off.

Doris Lessing

#8. Books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

Jon Krakauer

#9. It is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.

Margaret Deland

#10. For although he is right with us and in and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find Him.

Thomas Merton

#11. Margowegottagohomeandtell.

John Green

#12. There is, in practice, no such thing as autonomy. Practically, there is only a distinction between responsible and irresponsible dependence.

Wendell Berry

#13. Like all mothers, mother nature will tuck you safely into bed at night only to come into your room two hours later in a scary mask and threaten you with a nail

Greg Evigan

#14. Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#15. I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name.

Austin Carlile

#16. walks into a church, a temple

Various

#17. Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

B.W. Powe