John Steinbeck Quotes

Does anyone ever know even the outer fringe of another? What are you like in there? Mary - do you hear? Who are you in there?

John Steinbeck

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• I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Up
  • Teenager
  • Going

• I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Desire
  • Religious
  • Married

• We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong - I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Beach
  • Guess
  • Beach Boys

• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Help

• Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Society
  • Daily
  • Commitment

• A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Good
  • Me
  • Rest

• I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • People
  • Me
  • Relationships

• The world is still sexist.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • World
  • Still
  • Sexist

• Ay, call it holy ground,The soil where first they trod;They have left unstained what there they found -Freedom to whorship God.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • God
  • Freedom

• If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Pet

• All pity is self-pity.

  

  W. H. Auden

• The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of sophistical sciences which lead to an eternal quackery.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Silence

• The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Great
  • Money
  • Financial

• We started making content because we wanted to see it, and so our content ended up being genuine.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Up

• We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Done
  • Night
  • Control

• How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.

  

  Leo Durocher
  • Money
  • Game
  • College

• I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

  

  Neil Cavuto

• I feel like I have this different opportunity that not a lot of athletes may have. It's the fact that I'm Korean-American, and the Olympics are going to be in Korea, but I'm also riding for the States. I feel like I got really lucky that it got all pieced together - my first Olympics, being in Korea where most of my family is.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Different
  • Family
  • May

• Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • Democracy
  • Creative
  • Survive

• I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.

  

  Bruce Kovner
  • Great

• Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see that than fake anything any day.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Fake

• For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.

  

  Jane Leavy

• Does anyone ever know even the outer fringe of another? What are you like in there? Mary - do you hear? Who are you in there?

  

  John Steinbeck