Top 100 Quotes About Kinney
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.
Sean Kinney
#5. 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
#6. I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.
Jeff Kinney
#7. 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
#8. It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up.
Jeff Kinney
#10. 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
#11. hopefully Mr. Blakely won't be too mad when he sees his
Jeff Kinney
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Merit badges are these little patches you get for learning how to do all sorts of manly stuff.
Jeff Kinney
#19. Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist?
Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you!
Jeff Kinney
#20. Whenever you go with the cheaper option, you end up regretting it
Jeff Kinney
#21. It's been six months, Alex. The Brian Kinney routine is cute, but it's not you. It never was.
Rachel West
#22. Because of acting I've gotten to travel and meet so many amazing people, and they inspire new songs.
Emily Kinney
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. And if you don't spend every second outdoors, people think there's someting wrong with you.
Jeff Kinney
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Women love firefighters so much because it's like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.
Taylor Kinney
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. I'm not even the most influential person in my own house.
Jeff Kinney
#38. 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
#39. It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place.
Jeff Kinney
#40. 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
#41. 'Dad' she huffs.
'Kinney Hale,' he refutes, "I banished ghosts from this house millenniums ago. They're all afraid of me.
Becca Ritchie
#42. 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
#43. I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.
Jeff Kinney
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.
Taylor Kinney
#47. 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
#48. Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.
Jeff Kinney
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. We got famous off singing about a chicken.
Sean Kinney
#53. I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.
Taylor Kinney
#54. 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
#55. I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget
Jeff Kinney
#56. I think Diary of a Wimpy kidis sooooo good!!!!!!!
Jeff Kinney
#57. In the songs that I write, that's where I get to be really brave and outspoken.
Emily Kinney
#59. step step step no no no plop plop plop in i go
Jeff Kinney
#60. Walt was a dreamer, but one who pursued his goals with clarity and an almost ferocious intensity." JACK KINNEY DISNEY ANIMATOR
Pat Williams
#61. 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
#62. I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.
Jeff Kinney
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. I think goodreads is the best place to look for books
Jeff Kinney
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.
Jeff Kinney
#71. We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.
Sean Kinney
#72. I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outside, and no one got hurt, but the house was demolished.
Taylor Kinney
#73. The man looks outside. The house is totally surrounded by night crawlers.
Jeff Kinney
#74. 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
#75. Just tell yourself they're only stories.
Pamela K. Kinney (Spectre Nightmares and Visitations)
Pamela K. Kinney
#76. With the recent addition of a full soundtrack and the players map, millions of Poptropicans around the globe are now fully immersed in a multimedia gaming experience when they embark on our high quality adventures.
Jeff Kinney
#77. 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
#78. The demonic face stared up at him. It had horns, a Snidely Whiplash mustache and a nasty grin.
Pamela K. Kinney
#79. i'm just glad i'm not in the swim team this summer
Jeff Kinney
#80. When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.
Jeff Kinney
#82. I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
Taylor Kinney
#83. I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If I'd known I was writing for kids, I might actually have spelt things out a bit more, and that would probably have killed the appeal.
Jeff Kinney
#84. The first thing you learn is how to be alone. You learn, or suffer. It is an easy lesson. You suffer more when people are around. People make you feel alone. And loneliness is a quiet wound.
Marjorie M. Liu
#85. Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.
Emily Kinney
#86. In one hundred years people will still remember our kind of love; a love that knows no bounds - that surpasses all reason - and will never, never die. (Loving Lily Lavender)
DeAnna Kinney
#87. I'm basically one of the best people I know.
Jeff Kinney
#88. So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwear.
Jeff Kinney
#89. I don't care what college you graduated from, how many degrees you may have, how much money you may be making, how pretty you think you are. All of that means absolutely nothing if you don't have God in your life.
Marita L. Kinney
#90. When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.
Jeff Kinney
#91. 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
#92. No matter how nice you are to some people, they'll turn their back on you the second they get the chance.
Jeff Kinney
#93. Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his dresser, in easy reach of a kid making a beeline to the bathroom.
Jeff Kinney
#94. 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
#95. I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.
Taylor Kinney
#96. Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.
Jeff Kinney
#97. My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball and a fog machine and some other things. I have a really long work day, and you might find me doing karaoke by myself late at night.
Jeff Kinney
#98. He had learned never to disturb her when the keyboard was clacking. He left a quick note and slipped out. He grabbed the 6 train up to midtown and walked to the Kinney lot on 46th Street. Mario tossed him the keys without glancing up from his paper.
Harlan Coben
#99. After the presentations, we had to fill out these questionnaires. The first question was, 'Where do you see yourself in fifteen years?'
I know EXACTLY where I will be in fifteen years: in my pool, at my mansion, counting my money. But there weren't any check boxes for THAT option.
Jeff Kinney
#100. So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.
Jeff Kinney
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