I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people&#...
JEFF KINNEY 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. ...
JEFF KINNEY When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ...
JEFF KINNEY Monkeys can't talk, stupid!
JEFF KINNEY Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books ar...
JEFF KINNEY I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.
JEFF KINNEY I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be...
JEFF KINNEY I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons." - Greg Heffl...
JEFF KINNEY Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters...
JEFF KINNEY There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out book...
JEFF KINNEY I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the contro...
JEFF KINNEY In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft dr...
JEFF KINNEY I'm not very charismatic or telegenic. I feel bad for the kids waiting three hours in line for t...
JEFF KINNEY So I've started wearing sweatpants to bed because I really don't need Santa seeing me in my underwea...
JEFF KINNEY I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that co...
JEFF KINNEY I feel, as an adult, I'm very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. Maybe it's a case of arres...
JEFF KINNEY Luckily for me, my father had impeccable taste. No contemporary collector was he. His treasure trove...
JEFF KINNEY On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom an...
JEFF KINNEY Zoo-Wee Mama!
JEFF KINNEY My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plast...
JEFF KINNEY Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of bei...
JEFF KINNEY On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it w...
JEFF KINNEY I draft on the computer. I have a really giant screen that attaches to my laptop, and then I have a ...
JEFF KINNEY I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen...
JEFF KINNEY Dear Aunt Loretta,
Thank you so much for the awesome pants!
How did you know I wanted tha...
JEFF KINNEY I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my c...
JEFF KINNEY I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write...
JEFF KINNEY We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When w...
JEFF KINNEY With the recent addition of a full soundtrack and the players map, millions of Poptropicans around t...
JEFF KINNEY Be yourself and people will like you.
JEFF KINNEY If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end u...
JEFF KINNEY You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.
JEFF KINNEY When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you mi...
JEFF KINNEY The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode...
JEFF KINNEY Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.
JEFF KINNEY If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fu...
JEFF KINNEY When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom an...
JEFF KINNEY Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!
JEFF KINNEY It's pretty sad. I don't know if it's a joke, or in someone's house ... dumped in a lake or on the s...
JEFF KINNEY When the sun came up, I saw it was missing first thing. It's huge, you don't miss it.
JEFF KINNEY I was psyched. I never thought I'd see this again, I really didn't. They [police] did an awesome job...
JEFF KINNEY I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least f...
JEFF KINNEY To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a me...
TAYLOR KINNEY Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When...
TAYLOR KINNEY My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been da...
TAYLOR KINNEY I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff...
TAYLOR KINNEY When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rum...
TAYLOR KINNEY I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outsid...
TAYLOR KINNEY I don't have lavish taste.
TAYLOR KINNEY I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
TAYLOR KINNEY I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.
TAYLOR KINNEY As an actor, some of my favorite things to work on are night exterior scenes. Any time that we'r...
TAYLOR KINNEY If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of wo...
TAYLOR KINNEY I have a bunch of brothers. I grew up with a big family.
TAYLOR KINNEY To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
TAYLOR KINNEY I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
TAYLOR KINNEY I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red mea...
TAYLOR KINNEY I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started l...
TAYLOR KINNEY I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.
TAYLOR KINNEY I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw eve...
TAYLOR KINNEY I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, clim...
TAYLOR KINNEY I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair ...
TAYLOR KINNEY I look up to a strong woman; maybe that's why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is ...
TAYLOR KINNEY When I was little, we moved around a lot, actually. In second grade, I think I went to three differe...
EMILY KINNEY We try to be proactive in cases like this. We followed our own process of being open and proactive.
ED KINNEY It's very addictive. It's a little known fact. I saw it happen. It clicked for Drew Carey. He loved ...
KATHY KINNEY We're going to be zigzagging across the country like crazy doing improv.
KATHY KINNEY I didn't even know she went to Quaker Valley. We lost track of each other for all those years.
ASHTON KINNEY Macarons and Cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers I think! When I'm grown up and can have wh...
PAULETTE KINNEY Barrett-Jackson has created that same mystique and the same aura that Tiffany has with its blue box....
DAVE KINNEY With SIRTF you'll be able to fill in that population of most distant objects,
ANNE KINNEY We are closer to answering the question, 'Are we alone in the universe?' ... We aim to answer that q...
ANNE KINNEY Scientists are keenly aware that the telescope is up there not doing anything. There's an enormous d...
ANNE KINNEY It's almost impossible. This was a very, very partial print. ... We sent it out, but you would have ...
RICHARD KINNEY We have to dance, dance now, dance a lot, dance hard, dance fast, ... I still feel it in my ankles.
KATHY KINNEY Meanwhile you look at the same field with the Chandra X-Ray observatory and you see a little beacon ...
ANNE KINNEY What it means is that the taste of the people who are buying at Barrett-Jackson are more attuned to ...
DAVE KINNEY The graphics are very good, better than a lot of simulators. The avionics is what the key is. They'r...
DAVE KINNEY All you have to do is look at the textbooks, ... They are being rewritten page by page, Hubble image...
ANNE KINNEY Cars are usually the second largest purchase for most people, right after their house. It makes sens...
DAVE KINNEY What Barrett-Jackson is selling is a dream, and a lot of people can fulfill that dream with real mon...
DAVE KINNEY Luckily, we not only met that, we exceeded it.
TOM KINNEY I was so excited; I didn't know what to do. I told the girls and I stood up, and I got shaky and I c...
CAROL KINNEY And then he said, 'No, it's good. It's good, major news.'
CAROL KINNEY That property class doesn't have anything to do with the value. You have to look at the building typ...
CAROL KINNEY Affluence plays a big factor today. Lifestyle expectations have risen, and the premium market is bec...
ED KINNEY The rise of the Internet has really helped us. The Internet allows people to research on their own t...
ED KINNEY We found an increasing number of people who like the property but would not use 13 weeks but wanted ...
ED KINNEY It's nothing anyone could put on their home computer.
ED KINNEY The information could be misplaced and retrieving it would require sophisticated hardware. But any i...
ED KINNEY At this point, we are taking all things into consideration. The tapes may have been taken, but they ...
ED KINNEY The destinations and features are great for those interested in taking quality vacations for a long ...
ED KINNEY If you own in Colorado and used up 14 of your days there, and then wanted to use the balance in St. ...
ED KINNEY We didn't want to sit around and worry about it. We wanted to get engaged.
ELEANOR KINNEY These towns are trying to preserve their small-town character.
ELEANOR KINNEY One bad police officer makes a whole department and state look bad.
DAVE KINNEY You can't achieve goals in a team game as individuals.
ERRON KINNEY We have all the confidence in the world in him already, and he just showed everyone why today. Going...
ERRON KINNEY We apologize to our fans.
ERRON KINNEY That was atrocious. It hurts. We just handed them the game We had the game under control. We were ex...
ERRON KINNEY A lot of it is on us. We have just got to do better in tight situations. Me included.
ERRON KINNEY I don't know anything about it. I don't really know what to say. That is a little discouraging. It c...
ERRON KINNEY [Pittsburgh] flipped their record around last year, and that's the kind of thing we're expecting to ...
ERRON KINNEY Pittsburgh week was all natural. This week? No. To hear 'Mason' and 'Rolle' coming out of the wrong ...
ERRON KINNEY He knows the drill. He's done this before, so it won't be a big deal for him.
ERRON KINNEY They are not going to make any big mistakes giving up a big play, so what we had to do was be discip...
ERRON KINNEY He was never in trouble.
ERNEST KINNEY We didn't know he had another case at the same time when Brad got sick. People don't know that Brad ...
ERNEST KINNEY My health is good. I am in great shape.
ERNEST KINNEY It kind of shocked all of us. This is unbelievable.
ERNEST KINNEY Brad Smith almost died [Wednesday] night. His kidneys were going into failure. His pancreas is not e...
ERNEST KINNEY I mean this is the kind of love people dream about, poets write sonnets for, and well it's the kind ...
DEANNA KINNEY He needs good news right now the way you and I need oxygen. He has to win it.
JASON KINNEY We still have a lot of election left to go. If this was the NBA, this is still the third quarter. An...
JASON KINNEY But in the end, it is our hope and expectation that it will be shown that the senator acted appropri...
JASON KINNEY I would rather do a project that I've invested so much time to, rather than try to get a part on...
EMILY KINNEY Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experie...
EMILY KINNEY And they wanted Drew to get up and do some of his (stand-up) routine, but he hadn't done it in a whi...
KATHY KINNEY Drew Carey was the person who got me involved in this -- he's so patriotic,
KATHY KINNEY We are putting it all together at the most important time of the year. All of us knew we could hang ...
JOE KINNEY To open up league play with three wins on the road is a nice way to open up the Patriot League Seaso...
JOE KINNEY The four days to practice out here helped out, and the course is going to be play to our advantage b...
JOE KINNEY This is different than other years.
MATT KINNEY We're nonbiased witnesses here. If it's not the guy, it's not the guy and we're going to say so.
RICHARD KINNEY Just tell yourself they're only stories.

Pamela K. Kinney (Spectre Nightmares and Visita...
PAMELA K. KINNEY The chapel is the most important room in the house. The entire house is built around that.
REV DONALD KINNEY It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't ...
JEFF GREENFIELD I do believe we have voter fraud in America.
JEFF SESSIONS Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those ...
JEFF AMENT I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.
JEFF BECK Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an a...
JEFF COHEN That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.
JEFF FOXWORTHY Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital ve...
JEFF BEZOS We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is...
JEFF BEZOS If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Bein...
JEFF BEZOS It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
JEFF BEZOS Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
JEFF BEZOS What's dangerous is not to evolve.
JEFF BEZOS People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People ...
JEFF ROSS If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.
JEFF BEZOS Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?
JEFF FOXWORTHY I know Elon, we're very like minded in many ways. We're not conceptual twins. One thing I wa...
JEFF BEZOS Tyria's a big world. We get a grand tour in 'Ghosts of Ascalon.' We're in Divinity&#...
JEFF GRUBB When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civ...
JEFF GREENFIELD You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so...
JEFF TWEEDY I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out...
JEFF BEZOS Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cy...
JEFF BRIDGES It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you...
JEFF KOONS There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even ...
JEFF BRIDGES The beauty of the Internet is that anybody can be a broadcaster now.
JEFF ZUCKER We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Han...
JEFF DUNHAM Some states like Nebraska have thus far responsibly managed their budgets, even in tough times, and ...
JEFF FORTENBERRY Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky littl...
JEFF COHEN The Census Bureau can ask citizens very invasive questions, and if they don't respond, the gover...
JEFF DUNCAN While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential...
JEFF DUNCAN What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themse...
JEFF NICHOLS I think Vice is vastly overrated. And I think that if you are interested in reaching young males, wh...
JEFF ZUCKER Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they...
JEFF LANDRY Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidat...
JEFF GREENFIELD One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can hav...
JEFF GOODELL I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to Am...
JEFF BUCKLEY I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other w...
JEFF LINDSAY I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.
JEFF GOLDBLUM You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remem...
JEFF FOXWORTHY Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a ...
JEFF BUCKLEY It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom tim...
JEFF BEZOS Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if y...
JEFF FOXWORTHY People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.
JEFF FORTENBERRY If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whi...
JEFF BECK It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt tha...
JEFF FISHER For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a ver...
JEFF LINDSAY There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as we...
JEFF GREENFIELD Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music indust...
JEFF TWEEDY For special wrestlers, there's somewhere else to go - as long as you're not brainwashed by t...
JEFF HARDY From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off moun...
JEFF GOODELL I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel ...
JEFF BUCKLEY I am not going to approve the home-screening format for my film just carte blanche in lieu of a thea...
JEFF NICHOLS Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this w...
JEFF MACNELLY I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensiti...
JEFF SESSIONS I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
JEFF FOXWORTHY Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of the...
JEFF ZASLOW But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the...
JEFF VANDERMEER I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better th...
JEFF LINDSAY You can't do everything but you can do something!
JEFF DIXON Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
JEFF GOLDBLUM Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
JEFF VALDEZ Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
JEFF PESIS Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
JEFF DALY Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.
JEFF DEWAR We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there alw...
JEFF WARNER I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
JEFF FOXWORTHY Do you remember how slowly the days passed when you were a child? An 80-mile car trip seemed endless...
JEFF DAVIDSON The beaten path is the safest, but the traffics terrible.
JEFF TAYLOR What are the best times to reflect on the course of your life? Whenever you are near water, such as ...
JEFF DAVIDSON Ask yourself, If I had only sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get m...
JEFF DEWAR The constant dilemma of the information age is that our ability to gathera sea of data greatly excee...
JEFF DAVIDSON We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
JEFF ARDER When a heart breaks it also opens -Jeff Arch- screenwriter.
JEFF ARCH Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
JEFF DALY If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the wor...
JEFF FOXWORTHY