Quotes About Krakauer Mccandless

#1. What's bred in the bones, when you have bones, comes through. And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice.

Katherine Dunn

#2. There is always stardust in my eyes when I look at you, my love.

Ellen Read

#3. Everett was strange,' Sleight concedes. 'Kind of different. But him and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.' (pg. 96)

Jon Krakauer

#4. But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

Jon Krakauer

#5. Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
-Chris McCandless

Jon Krakauer

#6. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things than came easily.

Jon Krakauer

#8. S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE. I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO JOKE. IN THE NAME OF GOD, PLEASE REMAIN TO SAVE ME. I AM OUT COLLECTING BERRIES CLOSE BY AND SHALL RETURN THIS EVENING. THANK YOU, CHRIS MCCANDLESS. AUGUST?

Jon Krakauer

#9. Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you

Robin McKinley

#10. By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential by many Alaskans: a large-caliber rifle, map and compass, an ax. This has been regarded as evidence not just of stupidity but of the even greater sin of arrogance.

Jon Krakauer

#11. I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.

Joni Mitchell

#12. It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

Jon Krakauer

#13. The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.

Hortense Calisher

#14. A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.

James M. Cain

#15. According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

Jon Krakauer

#16. [Chris] gave his life in exchange for knowledge and his story is his contribution to the world. I feel complete now to put this story behind me as it was on my mind for quite some time.

Krakauer Jon

#17. Power is crack cocaine for your ego and battery acid for your soul.

David Mitchell

#18. Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

Julian Huxley

#19. My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

Harry Connick Jr.

#20. People don't remember you for all of the good things you do. They remember the time you blew a giant green snot bubble out your nose.

Donna Barr

#21. I definitely want children. That's important to me, so I just want to make sure that I'm completely prepared for it when that day comes.

Lance Gross