“I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons." - Greg Heffley,”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“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, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“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, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“The best person I know is Myself.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“Then one day, this kid named Darren Walsh touched the Cheese with his finger, and that's what started this thing called the Cheese Touch. It's basically like the Cooties. If you get the Cheese Touch, you're stuck with it until you pass it on to someone else. The only way to protect yourself from the Cheese Touch is to cross your fingers.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“that if you don't read nobody does”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“The only reason I get out of bed at all on weekends is because eventually I can't stand the taste of my own breath any more.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“Greg starts a middle school and asks: Why
is "bullies" such a big PROBLEM? And says
people need to shave twice a day.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“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, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“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, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“كل ما قالته لي هو أن أحاول فعل الصواب لأن خياراتنا هي التي تحدد من نكون”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“Be yourself and people will like you.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“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, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“And if you don't spend every second outdoors, people think there's someting wrong with you.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“don't expect me to be all dear diary this and dear diary that”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“But do I have “low intelligence”?”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“found out I was singing, and he couldn’t resist the chance to see me embarrass myself. The play was supposed to start at 8: 00, but it got delayed because Rodney James had stage fright. You’d figure that someone whose job it was to sit on the stage and do nothing could just suck it up for one performance. But Rodney wouldn’t budge, and eventually, his mom had to carry him off. The play finally got started around 8: 30. Nobody could remember their lines, just like I predicted, but Mrs. Norton kept things”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“Rodrick’s punishment was that he had to answer a bunch of questions Mom wrote out for him. Did owning this magazine make you a better person? No. Did it make you more popular at school? No. How do you feel about having owned this type of magazine now? I feel ashamed. Do you have anything you want to say to women for having owned this offensive magazine? I’m sorry women.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
Born place: in Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, The United States
Born date February 19, 2018
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“I'm not to blame, Ramborg, if a man's heart is created in such a fashion that whatever is inscribed on it when it's young and fresh is carved deeper than all the runes that are later etched.”
― Sigrid Undset, quote from Kristin Lavransdatter
“You just wanted to walk in front of me so I'd have to stare at your butt”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from The Killing Dance
“If there were no risk of a punishment, a getaway would lose the pleasure.”
― Kōbō Abe, quote from The Woman in the Dunes
“His dark eyes challenged me. They were weapons that could hurt me. Here was the worst thing about them: I could tell that if Johnafter loved you, his dark eyes would be beautiful and friendly and warm. So every time he cut me down with a look that was cold and unfriendly and ugly, it was a double insult, a reminder of what I could never have. I found myself avoiding his dark eyes when I could.”
― Jennifer Echols, quote from Going Too Far
“Jon Spiro had not hired Pex and Chips for their debating sills. In the job interview, they had only been set one task. A hundred applicants were handed a walnut and asked to smash it however they could. Only two succeeded. Pex had shouted at the walnut for a few minutes, then flattened it between his giant palms. Chips had opted for a more controversial method. He placed the walnut on the table, grabbed is interviewer by the ponytail, and used the man's forehead to smash the nut. Both men were hired on the spot. They quickly established themselves as Arno Blunt's most reliable leiutenants for in-house work. They were not allowed outside Chicago, as this could involve map reading, something Pex and Chips were not very good at.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Eternity Code
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